![]() ![]() Their private music lessons quickly become about much more than music. When the family flees Africa for London, 11-year-old Roland is sent to a boarding school where he exhibits a prodigious piano talent and meets the young woman who will forever alter his life - Miriam Cornell. Is Roland a suspect? From there we’re swept back in time to Roland’s upbringing in Libya with a stern father and a mother who cowered before him. His wife, we’re told, has “vanished.” There’s a detective in the house, asking questions. The news is filled with ominous headlines about a radiation cloud floating from Chernobyl toward Britain. When we first meet Roland Baines he is a new parent, struggling to his raise his son alone. “Roland occasionally reflected on the events and accidents, personal and global, minuscule and momentous that had formed and determined his existence.” That one sentence in Ian McEwan’s new novel, “Lessons,” nicely sums up the book. Business & Finance Click to expand menu. ![]()
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