21/12/2025
"Lessons" by Ian McEwan
In Lessons, Ian McEwan offers a quiet, expansive meditation on a life shaped by time, memory, and early experience. The novel traces the trajectory of Roland Baines from childhood to old age, following him through decades marked less by dramatic turns than by the slow accumulation of consequences. At the heart of this life story lie the formative moments of youth: piano lessons, an early relationship with his teacher, and an intimacy that leaves a lasting imprint on his emotional development....