On Chesil Beach
The Booker-Prize shortlisted novella from the Sunday Times bestselling author of What We Can Know.
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3.8 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Edward and Florence arrive at Chesil Beach, unaware their wedding night will define their lives.
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
‘A masterpiece’ Times Literary Supplement
‘A wonderful and moving portrait of a specific time, and two of its hostages, and how to make a mess of love’ Irish Times
'McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us' Guardian
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Novelist Ian McEwan excels at putting relationships under the microscope and examining their cracks. In On Chesil Beach, he casts his eye on newlyweds Florence and Edward. It’s 1962, and the novel turns what initially appear to be standard wedding-night nerves into something far darker; the events of that evening end up changing the entire course of the couple’s future. Unfolding through a series of flashbacks, the story expands on the couple’s courtship and examines the social expectations of the era. Saoirse Ronan stars in the movie adaptation.
