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On Chesil Beach

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It is July 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

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

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Weight 0.147 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

166

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K