On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

'It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence's response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence's anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite.'--BOOK JACKET. This 2007 Jonathan Cape Hardback is in near mint condition.

ISBN: 9780224081184 SKU: 1441046 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1441046
Location: Fiction