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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?
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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)
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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 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 2013 she was selected for the prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers. She lives in London.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0141025964
- ISBN 13 9780141025964
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- Number of pages288
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