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Lessons: A Novel

by Ian McEwan

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Lessons: A Novel by Ian McEwan appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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