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Lessons

By Ian McEwan

Lessons book

Lessons

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Discover the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from Ian McEwan. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means ¬- literature, travel, friendship, drugs, politics, sex and love. Roland's story asks can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? And what can we learn from the traumas of the past? **A GUARDIAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'McEwan's writing is as elegant and ideas-packed as ever' The Times 'Lessons triumphantly achieves its primary aim of conveying the "commonplace and wondrous" intertwining of global history and everyday life' Daily Telegraph 'McEwan's wry humanity and gentle amusement at his own generation proves irresistible and a joy to read' Antony Beevor, Spectator, *Books of the Year*
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
496
Release Date:
2022-09-13
Publication Date:
2022-09-13
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1787333973
ISBN13:
9781787333970
Minimum Reading Age:
1
Maximum Reading Age:
110
Weight:
736 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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