'On Chesil Beach' Description
Wonderful...exquisite...devastating' Independent on Sunday. 'On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece' Times Literary Supplement. 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...
Ian McEwan is the author of two collections of stories and ten previous novels, including Enduring Love, Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement and Saturday.