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Ian McEwan's celebrated novel, now an unmissable film starring Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Brooklyn) 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.

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Wonderful...exquisite...devastating * Independent on Sunday *
On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece * Times Literary Supplement *
Superb... The protagonists have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life my McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force * Financial Times *
Exquisitely crafted * Evening Standard *
Written with a fierce pursuit of the truth and an utterly modern self-awareness, what a confidant tour de force this turns out to be * Sunday Express *

On Chesil Beach

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 03/05/2018
      ISBN13: 9781784705565, 978-1784705565
      ISBN10: 178470556X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Ian McEwan's celebrated novel, now an unmissable film starring Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Brooklyn) 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.

      Trade Review
      Wonderful...exquisite...devastating * Independent on Sunday *
      On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece * Times Literary Supplement *
      Superb... The protagonists have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life my McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force * Financial Times *
      Exquisitely crafted * Evening Standard *
      Written with a fierce pursuit of the truth and an utterly modern self-awareness, what a confidant tour de force this turns out to be * Sunday Express *

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