Summary
A modern-day Brideshead Revisited: a group of friends at university, then several years after, when hopes have been shattered and friends and lovers betrayed. In The Lessons, a close-knit group of friends forms at Oxford around the mercurial, charismatic figure of Mark, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and dangerously unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. After graduation the group fragments, each locked in his or her own suddenly adult, pedestrian world. But Mark’s influence is still strong…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141025964 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141025964 |
| Author: | Naomi Alderman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Remarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer
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 *
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels.
Awards and Recognition:
- 2006: Orange Award for New Writers
- 2007: Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
- 2007: Selected as one of Waterstones’ 25 Writers for the Future
- 2013: Selected for Granta’s Best of Young British Writers
Broadcasting:
All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime.
Current Residence:
She lives in London.
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