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Ian McEwan’s devastating novel about ways in which the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.What speaks louder - inaction or unspoken words? It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress anxiety about the wedding night to come... And unbeknownst to both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives."This short novel takes place on the first night of their honeymoon, with many flashbacks, and at the end a great flash forward, and at the core an enormous misunderstanding ... It is difficult to judge whether to give away the plot of this book...is to lessen its impact on the reader. McEwan writes prose judiciously; his books seem to depend on plain writing and story and careful plotting, with much detail added to make the reader believe that these words on the page must be followed and believed as the reader would follow and believe a well-written piece of journalism. On Chesil Beach, however, is full of odd echoes and has elements of folk tale, which make the plea

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Author

Ian McEwan

Publisher

Vintage Digital

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780099512790

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.54 / 5 (1,135 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13