
One of Ian McEwan’s most achingly moving and expertly honed novels, On Chesil Beach is a masterpiece of miscommunication and mistaken intent.


At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Now the inspiration for a major new film, adapted for the screen by Ian McEwanĪnd they had so many plans, giddy plans, heaped up before them in the misty future, as richly tangled as the summer flora of the Dorset coast, and as beautiful.Įdward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast.
