|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
 On Chesil Beach by McEwan, Ian |
| |||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
| |
Brief Description In a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. |
| |
Prizes Won By This Title (See the awards link at the top of the page for other prize winners) Winner of British Book Awards: Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2008 and British Book Awards: Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2008. Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Awar |
| |
Author Information Ian McEwan is the author of two collections of stories and ten previous novels, including Enduring Love, Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement and Saturday. |
| |
Author Profile Ian McEwan has written two collections of short stories, First Loves, Last Rites and In between the Sheets, and seven novels, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Daydreamer, Enduring Love and Amsterdam, winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. |
| |
Ian McEwan 's author page with latest news updates |
| |
Authors:
click here to promote your work to the Booksconnect community.
By joining Booksconnect you will be able to add or update your profile, reading guides, bookshelves, extracts, blogs, reviews, events, twitter username for twitter feeds and participate in discussions and more. |
| |
Synopsis It is June, 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come ..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. |
| |
Related Links - Countrybookshop Bestselling Authors in Modern Fiction Pratchett, Terry Dahl, Roald Rowling, J.K. Tolkien, J. R. R. Harris, Joanne Brown, Dan Steel, Danielle Booth, Stephen Brooks, Geraldine Cornwell, Bernard |
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
add item
