Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, On Chesil Beach is a compact and devastating novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times- bestselling Ian McEwan
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.
Re-jacketed in stunning new series style for 2023, On Chesil Beach is a compact and devastating novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwanSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA warm treat of a read for the cold winter nights.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.'McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us' Guardian
Winner of British Book Awards: Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2008 Winner of British Book Awards: Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2008 Short-listed for Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008 Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007 Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007
“Exquisitely crafted”
Wonderful...exquisite...devastating Independent on Sunday
Evening Standard
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
On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece Times Literary Supplement
This is McEwan's mature style, one we have come to recognise from Atonement and Saturday. It is a polished, civilised style, and very distant from the shock tactics of his early work... McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us; and their seriousness, their idealism, and their desire for love draw us towards them Guardian
To commend an author for being reminiscent of Edith Wharton is a compliment that this reviewer reserves for a select few. Yet with On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan has earnt it Telegraph
A master feat of concentration in both senses of the word Sunday Times
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
One of our greatest living writers. Many Easter weekends and train journeys will be enlivened by a compelling novella Herald
It is a masterpiece. The very idea that informs it, fascinating and unfamiliar, is masterly TLS
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
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