On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach is a fiction book written by Ian McEwan.

Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting are a young couple on their honeymoon in the 1960s. Both are still virgins and must overcome their difficulties with intimacy.

• "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.... McEwan has combined the intensity of his narrowly focused early work with his more expansive later flowering to devastating effect." - Justin Cartwright, The Independent
• "The story unfolds in a perfect manner, withholding now and then for effect, even omitting sometimes, with the result that On Chesil Beach is not only a wonderful read but also perhaps that rarest of things: a perfect novel." - San Francisco Chronicle

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