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*
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