- Title:
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The Lessons
- Written by:
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Naomi Alderman
- Read by:
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Jot Davies
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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11 hours 33 minutes
- Published:
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June 28 2019
- Available Date:
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June 28 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655603580
- Genres:
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Fiction; LGBTQI+; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Award winning author
Naomi Alderman's The Lessons reflects the truth that the lessons life teaches often come too late.
Hidden away in an Oxford backstreet is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess keys to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous.
Mark gathers around him an impressionable group of students: glamorous Emmanuella, who always has a new boyfriend in tow; Franny and Simon, best friends and occasional lovers; musician Jess, whose calm exterior hides passionate depths. And James, already damaged by Oxford and looking for a group to belong to.
For a time they live in a charmed world of learning and parties and love affairs. But university is no grounding for adult life, and when, years later, tragedy strikes, they are entirely unprepared.
'A world as beautiful and sinister as any in a fairytale.'
The Independent
'A glittering style, a compulsive pleasure. A seductive homage to Donna Tartt and Brideshead Revisited.'
Metro