{"product_id":"9780141025964","title":"The Lessons","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Alderman, Naomi\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 12 May 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 135 x 24 | 208g\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017James, always the outsider, enters Oxford - high seat of privilege, wealth and ambition. There he meets Mark Winters - dissolute, astonishingly, heartbreakingly rich, and pitilessly cruel - and the fellow students he has gathered around him: untouchable Emmanuella; on-again\/off-again Simon and Franny; and passionate, true Jess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nights - and many of the days - become one long party. Friendships are made, and broken. Lovers swapped, or dropped. It is all beguiling and bewitching. Everything James dreamed of but never quite believed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut after university they are each cast out into an indifferent world. Free of Mark and his dark influence, they are lost to one another, until one night tragedy strikes . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alderman, Naomi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42536933458104,"sku":"9780141025964","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780141025964.jpg?v=1734750771","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780141025964","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}