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On Chesil Beach

Author: Ian McEwan  

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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.

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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.

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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 PICTUREIt 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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Awards

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

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Critic Reviews

“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
A didactic, ironic novella of great accomplishment and calculated ambition. Structurally and linguistically, it is a triumph...intriguingly compassionate Prospect
It is a measure of McEwan's artistry that he is able here both to linger in the recording of sensuous particularities and at the same time to deliver the satisfactions of plot we are accustomed to deriving from his fiction Time Out, Book of the Week
McEwan shares with his fellow English novelist Jim Crace not only an interest in history but in finding a style in prose that is slow-moving, yet compelling, at times stilted and dry, and then suddenly sharp and precise London Review of Books
The protagonists of On Chesil Beach have everything to lose, and their faltering journey towards a point of no return is conjured into life by McEwan with irresistible subtlety, tact and force Scotsman
The book is steeped in lost hopes and disappointments, with each sentence as powerful as a Larkin poem. I didn't know a British novelist could still be this good Express
McEwan is word-perfect at handling the awkward comedy of this relationship and, as ever, turning it into something far more disturbing Observer
Two characters so vibrant they step straight off the page The Tablet
McEwan's brilliance as a novelist lies in his ability to isolate discrete moments in life and invest them with incredible significance Observer
McEwan's style is lean and clear...every sentence feels carefully crafted, the words all perfectly in place Daily Mail
A tightly focused human drama... McEwan gives the reader access to both characters' thoughts with his usual skill, and the comedy of embarrassment, or of the kind of erotic misunderstanding that Milan Kundera used to specialise in, quickly disappears as the marital bed begins to seem more and more ominous... The bedroom scene itself is carried off brilliantly Sunday Telegraph

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About the Author

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage
Published
3rd January 2008
Pages
176
ISBN
9780099512790

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