Irony: “a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result”

Ian McEwan helps his kid with an essay for English A-Levels, gets a C+ because the teacher disagrees with the author’s own thoughts about author’s own book. 🤣🤣🤣

Stranger than fiction: Ian McEwan’s son got a C in an A-level essay about one of his father’s books

In other news: literary books sales are down because... literary.