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The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a mesmerising 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 Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, and he is left alone with their baby son. Her disappearance sparks a 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.

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Lessons is easily McEwan's most accomplished novel since Atonement... he offers intelligent reflection on his novel's evergreen themes. * The Times * I loved Lessons... Deep, life-affirming and A-grade storytelling. * The Times * Thoughtful, tender and both universal and timeless in its depiction of the follies of the human heart... Ian McEwan is a masterful storyteller who weaves destiny and self-determination, the past and the future, youth and age, and above all, the loss and memory of love. -- Elif Shafak Captures youthful lust and late-age regret with equal power. * Financial Times * Superb... another mesmerising, memorable novel. * Independent *

Lessons is deep and wide, ambitious and humble, wise and substantial. It is, to my mind, McEwan's best novel in 20 years because it is so alert to human texture and complexity... It marks a significant new phase in McEwan's already astonishingly productive career. * New Statesman * Superb... A wonderful author has delivered another mesmerising, memorable novel. * Independent * A tour de force of breadth... McEwan writes with invigorating alertness about social and political shifts over the past 70 years. * Sunday Times * Lessons triumphantly achieves its primary aim of conveying the commonplace and wondrous intertwining of global history and everyday life. * Daily Telegraph * One of his most humane and agreeable [novels]. * Scotsman *

A beautiful book about love, loss and regret * Observer * I loved Lessons... Deep, life-affirming and A-grade storytelling * The Times * Captures youthful lust and late-age regret with equal power * Financial Times * Superb... another mesmerising, memorable novel * Independent * McEwan's writing is as elegant and ideas-packed as ever * The Times *

Lessons should have made the Booker longlist (and shortlist) but no matter. It marks a significant new phase in McEwan's already astonishingly productive career - and may well be remembered as one of the finest humanist novels of its age. * New Statesman * A tour de force of breadth... McEwan writes with invigorating alertness about social and political shifts over the past 70 years. * Sunday Times * Superb... A wonderful author has delivered another mesmerising, memorable novel. * Independent * McEwan's prose always goes down like a cool drink, and its content is often trenchant...I'm delighted to have added this thoughtful, touching and historically grounded novel to my bookshelf. -- Lionel Shriver * Financial Times * The Booker-winning author has woven multiple versions of himself into Lessons, his 500-page masterpiece. -- Andrew Billen * The Times *

A beautiful book about love, loss and regret * Observer * I loved Lessons... Deep, life-affirming and A-grade storytelling * The Times * Captures youthful lust and late-age regret with equal power * Financial Times * Superb... another mesmerising, memorable novel * Independent * A tour de force... A single life is silhouetted against global happenings * Sunday Times *

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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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