"It is June 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..."

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Genres: Fiction

Also by this author: Amsterdam, Atonement, Saturday, The Children Act, Sweet Tooth, Enduring Love, Solar, The Comfort of Strangers, Nutshell, The Child in Time, Black Dogs, The Innocent, First Love, Last Rites, In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden