Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
Lessons should have made the Booker longlist (and shortlist) but no
matter. It marks a significant new phase in McEwan's already
astonishingly productive career - and may well be remembered as
one of the finest humanist novels of its age. * New
Statesman *
A tour de force of breadth... McEwan writes with
invigorating alertness about social and political shifts over the
past 70 years. * Sunday Times *
Superb... A wonderful author has delivered another
mesmerising, memorable novel. * Independent *
McEwan's prose always goes down like a cool drink, and its
content is often trenchant...I'm delighted to have added this
thoughtful, touching and historically grounded novel to my
bookshelf. -- Lionel Shriver * Financial Times *
The Booker-winning author has woven multiple versions of himself
into Lessons, his 500-page masterpiece. -- Andrew Billen
* The Times *
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