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Raynor Winn

Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth’s health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before.

But will he – can he? – set out with her on another healing walk?

The Cape Wrath Trail is over two hundred miles of gruelling terrain through Scotland’s remotest mountains and lochs. But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards.

Lessons

Ian McEwan

When the world was still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain had closed, Roland Baines’s life was turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother’s protective love, stranded at a boarding school, his vulnerability attracted piano teacher Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.

Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence.