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https://clife.blog/2022/08/03/book-review-lessons-by-ian-mcewan/
This novel is indeed about Lessons.
Roland cannot get over his wife abandoning him and their baby. Why have one if you aren’t going to look after it or want it? Shouldn’t have a baby because you think you are supposed to or to fall in a clique.
Roland goes back and forth in life in his thoughts. One second he’s 14 playing the piano with his creepy teacher and the next he is in the daily life of the current.
His journey through his life is punctuated with attempts at escape, but ultimately always reflecting on how one’s personal reactions to events affects all around us. Are our personal feelings of rejection, remorse, anger, sadness, elation ever truly our OWN? How do we navigate our own private emotions without those emotions effecting those around us?
It was more so a life lesson and how our thoughts can go back and forth. However for a novel I wish it was more consistent.
Thanks to the publishers for sending me this novel in exchange for my honest review.