On Chesil Beach

Synopsis

National bestseller • the booker prize winner and bestselling author of atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple’s wedding night. “no one now writing in english surpasses or even matches mcewan's accomplishment. " —the washington post book world 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.