On Chesil Beach is a literary fiction book by author Ian McEwan.
It was July 1962. Florence was a talented musician who dreamed of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she would create with Edward, a serious young history student at the University of California. College of London, who suddenly flirts and wins her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence, arrived at a hotel on the Dorset coast.

At dinner in their room, they try to suppress their worries about their upcoming wedding night. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence’s reaction to his advances and harbors a personal fear of failure, while Florence’s anxiety deepens: she’s complete Totally loathed the idea of ​​physical contact, but dreaded disappointing her husband when they finally lay down together in their honeymoon suite.

Ian McEwan understood and sympathized with the innocence of Edward and Florence at a time when marriage was seen as an outward sign of maturity and independence. On Chesil Beach is another McEwan masterpiece: the story of lives transformed by an undone gesture or an unspoken word.

It’s 1962, and Edward and Florence, both virgins, are having dinner on the first night of their honeymoon at a hotel on England’s Chesil Beach. Two young couples look like they’re living in 1862, and McEwan looks like he’s writing in 1862. She’s terrified of sex, and he’s desperate to continue. The book details their courtship process and their family. Of course, the author of the good novel “Atonement” skillfully tells the story, builds suspense and inculcates the characters, but what he says in this novel is unfortunately too light and informative. often.
It’s about non-communication before marriage, so what’s new? Florence’s love of music, her violin, string quartet and Edward’s love of history and nature – these are well described. Of Edward on his wedding night, McEwan wrote, “His lust for pain was growing unbearably, and he was as frightened by his own savage impatience as he was. angry words or actions that it might incite, and that ends the evening.”

• On Chesil Beach

• By: Ian McEwan
• Narrated by: Ian McEwan

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