Lessons: the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from the author of Atonement

Lessons in Forgetting is a novel by Ian McEwan that explores the life of Roland Baines, who is left alone with his baby son after his wife mysteriously vanishes. The book is a masterpiece that shows McEwan at the peak of his powers. It is a beautiful book about love, loss, and regret, and has been described as a literary feat.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

The story of a life, the story of the year, and lessons that show [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece, The Daily Telegraph, when the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended. Young Roland Baines' life is turned upside down when he is stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracting 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.

Ian McEwan is a masterful storyteller. Elif Shafak describes A Beautiful Book about love, loss, and regret. The Observer calls it luminous, beautifully written... about lives imperfectly lived. Vogue describes it as a whole, unruly life between the covers of a single book: a literary feat. The Spectator calls it a tour de force... A single life is silhouetted against global happenings. The Sunday Times calls it a Book of the Year for The Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, New Statesman, Washington Post, Vogue, and New Yorker.

Weight: 394g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529116311