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The Lessons
Naomi Alderman
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Description for The Lessons
Paperback. Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess a key 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. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 135 x 24. Weight in Grams: 204.
From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
James, always the outsider, enters Oxford - high seat of privilege, wealth and ambition. There he meets Mark Winters - dissolute, astonishingly, heartbreakingly rich, and pitilessly cruel - and the fellow students he has gathered around him: untouchable Emmanuella; on-again/off-again Simon and Franny; and passionate, true Jess.
The nights - and many of the days - become one long party. Friendships are made, and broken. Lovers swapped, or dropped. It is all beguiling and bewitching. Everything James dreamed of but never quite believed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141025964
SKU
V9780141025964
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About Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. In ... Read more
Reviews for The Lessons
A world as beautiful and sinister as any in a fairytale. A pleasure to read
Independent
A glittering style, a compulsive pleasure. A seductive homage to Donna Tartt and Brideshead Revisited
Metro
Remarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer
Joanne Harris
Independent
A glittering style, a compulsive pleasure. A seductive homage to Donna Tartt and Brideshead Revisited
Metro
Remarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer
Joanne Harris