. . . . . . . . . . "The lessons" . "The lessons"@en . "PLAYAWAY. Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion. Its owner is the charismatic Mark Winters, who gathers around him an impressionable group of students. For a time they live in a world of learning, parties and love affairs. But university is no grounding for adult life, and when, years later, tragedy strikes they are entirely unprepared for the consequences." . . "Fiction" . . . "'The Lessons' is a spellbinding novel about shattered hopes, destructive love and dark family secrets from the author of 'Disobedience'."@en . . "Bildungsromans" . . . . .