Ian McEwan’s devastating novel about ways in which the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

What speaks louder - inaction or unspoken words? It is June, 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress anxiety about the wedding night to come…

Shortlisted
The Man Booker Prize 2007
Published by
Jonathan Cape
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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan

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Ian McEwan, born in Aldershot, England, is a critically acclaimed author and winner of the 1998 Booker Prize
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Other nominated books by Ian McEwan

Saturday
Atonement
Amsterdam
Prize winner
Black Dogs
The Comfort of Strangers