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MARC 21

The lessons
Tag	Description
020	$a9781460756997
082	$aAF PUR
100	$aPurcell, John,$eauthor.
245	$aThe lessons
260	$aSydney, N.S.W. :$bFourth Estate,$c2022
300	$a374 pages ;$c24 cm.
500	$aIf life teaches us anything, it's that innocence doesn't last" --Front cover.
520	$a1961. When teens Daisy and Harry meet, it feels so right they promise to love each other forever, but everything is stacked against them: class, education, expectations. After Daisy is sent by her parents to live with her glamorous, bohemian Aunt Jane, a novelist working on her second book, she is confronted by adult truths and suffers a loss of innocence that flings her far from the one good thing in her life, Harry. 1983. Jane Curtis, now a famous novelist, is at a prestigious book event in New York, being interviewed about the overlap between her life and her work, including one of her novels about the traumatic coming of age of a young woman. But she evades the interviewer's probing questions. What is she trying to hide?
650	$aDomestic fiction.
650	$aBetrayal.
650	$aForgiveness.
650	$aHonesty.
650	$aLove.