On Chesil Beach

Name: On Chesil Beach
Rating: 3.701986754966887 (151 reviews)
Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780224081184

by Ian McEwan

3.7

(151 ratings)

203 pages2007Jonathan CapeISBN 9780224081184

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About this book

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.

Publication Details

Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2007
Pages: 203
ISBN: 9780224081184
Language: en

About Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. He began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, *The Cement Garden* (1978) and The *Comfort of Strangers* (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His 1997 novel *Enduring Love* was adapted into a film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize with *Amsterdam* (1998). He was awarded the 1999 Shakespeare Prize. His next novel, *Atonement* (2001), garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. He received the 2011 Jerusalem Prize. His later novels have included *The Children Act, Nutshell, Machines Like Me* and *What We Can Know.*