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.
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*
Irresistible and a joy to read.
*Spectator, Books of the Year*
McEwan's writing is as elegant and ideas-packed as ever.
*The Times*
Elegant and moving, it's his best work in 20 years.
*Sunday Times, *Summer Reads of 2023**
McEwan returns with his best work since the Booker- and
NBCC-winning Atonement...Throughout, McEwan poignantly shows how
the characters contend with major historical moments while dealing
with the ravages of daily life, which is what makes this so
affecting. He also employs lyrical but pared-down prose to great
effect . . . Once more, the masterly McEwan delights.
*Publishers Weekly [starred review]*
McEwan deftly explores the interplay of will and chance, time and
memory.
*Washington Post*
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*
Magnificent and moving, Lessons is up there with McEwan's greatest
works.
*Independent*
The Booker-winning author has woven multiple versions of himself
into Lessons, his 500-page masterpiece.
*The Times*
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*
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.
*Financial Times*
A moving and masterful work that captures the essence of
McEwan....The book's psychological astuteness and elegant prose, is
a thrill to behold.
*Irish Independent*
Compassionate and gentle, and so bereft of cynicism it feels almost
radical....
*Guardian*
Lessons has the wonderful freshness that comes when an author tries
something new - along with McEwan's customary wit, insight and
compassion.
*Sunday Express*
McEwan's deft, descriptive prose charts the complexity of growing
up and finding one's place in an ever-shifting world
*Cultur Whisper*
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