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When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her and offered her a ride. It was an encounter that would change her life. Her parents were as infatuated with 'Simon' - the name she gives him in the book - as the adolescent Barber was, and dazzled by his worldliness. Simon introduced her to a world of luxury hotels and posh hotels and trips abroad.