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On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach

Author(s): Ian McEwan

Location(s): Dorset

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1962

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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…

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“A fine book, homing in with devastating precision on a kind of Englishness which McEwan understands better than any other living writer, the Englishness of deceit, evasion, repression and regret. In On Chesil Beach...

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