![]() ![]() Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. ![]() 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Lessons is a chronicle of our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime. Ian McEwan, our foremost storyteller, returns with an ambitious, mesmerising new novel. ![]()
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