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

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, On Chesil Beach is a compact and devastating novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan Edward and Florence arrive at Chesil Beach, unaware their wedding night will define their lives. 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 and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. 'A masterpiece' Times Literary Supplement 'A wonderful and moving portrait of a specific time, and two of its hostages, and how to make a mess of love' Irish Times 'McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us' Guardian Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the So