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On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

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Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback

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EAN: 9780099512790
Published: 3 Jan 2008

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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...

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What the critics say

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

About the Author

Ian McEwan is the author of two collections of stories and twelve previous novels, including Enduring Love, Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement and, most recently, Solar.

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