Lessons: the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from the author of Atonement
Sep 2022 · Random House
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The story of a life. The story of the year.
'Lessons shows [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece' Daily Telegraph
When 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 Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, and he is left alone with their baby son. Her disappearance sparks of journey of discovery that will continue for decades, as Roland confronts the reality of his rootless existence and attempts to embrace the uncertainty - and freedom - of his future.
'Ian McEwan is a masterful storyteller' Elif Shafak
'A beautiful book about love, loss and regret' Observer
'Luminous, beautifully written... about lives imperfectly lived' Vogue
'A whole, unruly life between the covers of a single book: a literary feat' Spectator
'A tour de force... A single life is silhouetted against global happenings' Sunday Times
* A Book of the Year for The Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, New Statesman, Washington Post, Vogue and New Yorker *
'Lessons shows [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece' Daily Telegraph
When 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 Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, and he is left alone with their baby son. Her disappearance sparks of journey of discovery that will continue for decades, as Roland confronts the reality of his rootless existence and attempts to embrace the uncertainty - and freedom - of his future.
'Ian McEwan is a masterful storyteller' Elif Shafak
'A beautiful book about love, loss and regret' Observer
'Luminous, beautifully written... about lives imperfectly lived' Vogue
'A whole, unruly life between the covers of a single book: a literary feat' Spectator
'A tour de force... A single life is silhouetted against global happenings' Sunday Times
* A Book of the Year for The Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, New Statesman, Washington Post, Vogue and New Yorker *
Ratings and reviews
4.1
14 reviews
Judy Pierson
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October 23, 2022
A well written and sometimes poetic account of one man's life through the latter half of the 20th and 21st century with all his and my fears for the future. It dips a bit in the middle and could do with some editing, but McEwan manages as always to be able to place the personal moral problems in a wider context.
Marianne Vincent
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September 13, 2022
A too-detailed description of a mediocre life that is much wordier than it needs to be.
David Lightfoot
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August 21, 2023
slow building start but once you're through it . it's a glorious treat
About the author
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
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