![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Twenty-five years later Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, and he is left alone with their baby son. 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. Roland Baines is your typical baby boomer raised in that postwar era, sent away to boarding school with its own inherent traumas. 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. Lessons was an epic undertaking by Ian McEwan as he told the story of Roland Baines' life in the arc of history as it unfolded from the fallout and trauma of World War II and the Cold War as the Iron Curtain closed. 'A beautiful book about love, loss and regret' Observer ![]()
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