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The Lessons
Out Now in Print, eBook and Audiobook
The Lessons: a novel by John Purcell
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From the bestselling author of The Girl on the Page comes The Lessons a striking and powerful story about the loss of innocence and how much we can forgive - if we forgive.

​APRIL 2022

Brimming with love, lust and lies.
I read it in a single sitting.
​Best enjoyed with a martini’

Felicity Mclean, Author Of
​the Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
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The Girl on the Page
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The Girl on the Page by John Purcell

​'In The Girl on the Page, John Purcell triumphs with a scalpel in one hand and his heart in the other. It is a gripping, dark comedy of a novel which eviscerates the cynicism of contemporary publishing while uttering a cri du coeur for what is happening to writers and
readers this century.

Through this black comedy - I squealed with laughter, page after page - flash questions about cultural life that Purcell asks but leaves us to ponder.'

Blanche d'Alpuget
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