On Chesil Beach: The Booker-Prize shortlisted novella from the Sunday Times bestselling author of What We Can Know.

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...Biographie de l'auteurIan McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories,First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels includeThe Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award;The Cement Garden;Enduring Love;Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize;Atonement;Saturday;On Chesil Beach;Solar;Sweet Tooth;The Children Act;Nutshell; andMachines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller.Atonement,Enduring Love, The Children Act andOn Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.