On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE

Publication Date : 05/04/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, a young couple who got married that morning are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This is a short novel of remarkable depth, power and poignancy from Ian McEwan, which is sure to be reviewed and featured everywhere you look.

Publisher's description:

In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This is a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

ISBN: 9780224081184