Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon Book

Until now the true story of John Lennon's childhood has never been told. John's sister Julia has herself been on a personal journey that has made it possible only now to reveal the full extent of the pain and difficulties - as well as the happier times - living inside John Lennon's family brought. Julia reveals the various strong self-willed and selfish women who surrounded John as he grew up. John was removed from his mother at the age of 5 to live with his Aunt Mimi and here Julia shows for the first time the cruelty of this decision - to both mother and son she sheds a new light on his upbringing with Mimi which is often at dramatic odds with the accepted tale. John's frequent visits to his mother and sisters gave him the liveliness freedom and love he sought and allowed him to develop his musical talents. The tragic death of their mother knocked down outside Aunt Mimi's house by a speeding car when John was 17 meant that life for him and his sisters would never be the same again.Poignant raw and beautifully written Imagine This casts John Lennon's life in a new light and reveals the source of his emotional fragility and musical genius.It is also one family's extraordinary story of how it dealt with fame and tragedy beyond all imagining.

'Honest and poignant' THE SUNThe honest and revealing story of John Lennon's childhood by his sister Julia. Through her own personal journey, Julia reveals the battle between two strong, self-willed women - John's mother and his Aunt Mimi - to have custody of John in his early years. It was Aunt Mimi who finally won and removed John from his mother at the age of five. But as John grew up, he would frequently return home - spending time with his mother and half-sisters, Julia, Jackie and Ingrid, learning his love of music from his mother, and hanging out, playing guitar with his childhood friend Paul McCartney.Julia is candid about the sadness as well as the joy of their broken family life. She details the devestating loss of their mother Julia in a road accident - and describes the painful legacy for the entire family, especially John as he moves into a life of stratospheric fame with the Beatles.