num_pages: 166
description: 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.
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: Vintage