num_pages: 4
description: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse RonanThe bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple’s wedding night.It is 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties become overwhelming. Unbeknownst to them both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in On Chesil Beach a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
language: English
title: On Chesil Beach
titlecomplete: On Chesil Beach
characters: Edward Mayhew, Florence Ponting
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Romance, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 91101
places: England, Chesil Beach, Dorset, England, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: British Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prix Littéraire Européen - Madeleine Zepter, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Audiobooks