Tender, funny, fresh, Natasha Judd’s LESSONS TO LEARN is an enchanting novel.

Haunted by tragedy, Charlotte wants to flee New Zealand so answers an advertisement to teach English in Korea. She could have gone anywhere, anywhere away from what had been the sheltered safety of her enclosed rural valley. But is running away from the past the right thing to do? What is ‘right’, anyway? And who, really, is she ?

The Korean students at Speak-English Academy, like the children Charlotte used to teach at Sunday School back in the valley, aren’t the only ones who have lessons to learn. As the story veers from the past to the present and back again, can the teacher be taught to find her own answers?

In bookstores now

Lessons to Learn was launched on June 12, 2007, and is now available online from Time Out Bookshop, the Arts Centre Bookshop, the Women’s Bookshop, Madras Café Books and Abacus Educational Book Supply.

I’ve also found it in Dymocks stores in Newmarket and Auckland City.  If you’ve seen it on the shelves in your local bookstore, please let me know so I can add it to to the list.