I expected to like Re-educated, the new memoir by Lucy Kellaway, who at the age of 57 and to the bafflement of friends and colleagues, resigned from her cushy perch as a columnist for the Financial Times to retrain as a teacher. Reinvention stories are always fun and rarely feature anyone who canât be spun as still young, plus I like journalist narrators. The surprise of the book, then, isnât that it is good, but how good â and thrilling, and fascinating, and moving. To my amazement, I found myself swallowing hard halfway through the story and remained on the brink of tears for the entire final third.