![]() It is a masterpiece' - Times Literary Supplement '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 ![]() 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 Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9781784705565 Number of pages: 176 Weight: 157 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm Edition: Media tie-in MEDIA REVIEWS ![]() Set in the borderland of English history immediately before the liberation and licence of the swinging sixties, McEwan reveals how a life can be irrevocably altered by a moment’s twist of fate. One of Ian McEwan’s most achingly moving and expertly honed novels, On Chesil Beach is a masterpiece of miscommunication and mistaken intent. 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. Now the inspiration for a major new film, adapted for the screen by Ian McEwanĪnd they had so many plans, giddy plans, heaped up before them in the misty future, as richly tangled as the summer flora of the Dorset coast, and as beautiful.Įdward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. ![]()
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