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Join award-winning novelist Ian McEwan, live in Kings Place in London or via the livestream, as he introduces his new novel, Lessons.

Lessons spans 70 years, beginning in the aftermath of the second world war, taking in the Suez crisis, Chernobyl, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the present-day pandemic and climate crisis.
It is the story of one man, Roland Baines - from a defining childhood encounter with a piano teacher, through boarding school, two marriages, single parenthood and elderly widowhood - all set against the momentous events of the last century. Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - music, literature, friends, sex, politics and love.
As he examines his own past and family history, this mesmerising new novel asks some big questions: can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our private lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past?
McEwan will be in conversation with Guardian critic Mark Lawson.
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