title: The Private John Lennon: The Untold Story from His Sister
author: Julia Baird
description: Read this one before the movie comes out in the US early next year! This book is the basis for the film Nowhere Boy. The same title also goes by the name _Imagine This_ in the UK.
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  The Silver Lion
  
   _Lynn Kerstan_
  
  Contents
  
  > > > > _Acknowledgments_  
  >  
  >  Prologue  
  >  Chapter One  
  >  Chapter Two  
  >  Chapter Three  
  >  Chapter Four  
  >  Chapter Five  
  >  Chapter Six  
  >  Chapter Seven  
  >  Chapter Eight  
  >  Chapter Nine  
  >  Chapter Ten  
  >  Chapter Eleven  
  >  Chapter Twelve  
  >  Chapter Thirteen  
  >  Chapter Fourteen  
  >  Chapter Fifteen  
  >  Chapter Sixteen  
  >  Chapter Seventeen  
  >  Chapter Eighteen  
  >  Chapter Nineteen  
  >  Chapter Twenty  
  >  Chapter Twenty-One  
  >  Chapter Twenty-Two  
  >  Chapter Twenty-Three  
  >  Chapter Twenty-Four  
  >  Chapter Twenty-Five  
  >  Chapter Twenty-Six  
  >  Chapter Twenty-Seven  
  >  Chapter Twenty-Eight  
  >  Chapter Twenty-Nine  
  >  Chapter Thirty  
  >  Chapter Thirty-One  
  >  Chapter Thirty-Two  
  >  
  >  _Copyright_  
  >
  
  _For Alicia Rasley_
  
    
  
  “I get by with a little help from my friends.”
  
  —Lennon/McCartney
  
    
    
    
    
    
  
   _Acknowledgments_
  
  Special thanks to Eve Sinaiko for the Italia