Lessons

Lessons is easily McEwan's most accomplished novel since Atonement ... he offers intelligent reflection on his novel's evergreen themes.

Lessons is easily McEwan's most accomplished novel since Atonement ... he offers intelligent reflection on his novel's evergreen themes.

I loved Lessons ... Deep, life-affirming and A-grade storytelling.

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.

Captures youthful lust and late-age regret with equal power.

Superb... another mesmerising, memorable novel.

Irresistible and a joy to read.

McEwan's writing is as elegant and ideas-packed as ever.

Elegant and moving, it's his best work in 20 years .

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.

McEwan deftly explores the interplay of will and chance, time and memory.

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen 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 ; Machines Like Me ; and Lessons . Atonement , Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.