On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan
This short novel is set in July 1962, when Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting are just married. It’s about the first night of their marriage
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“What I love in this book is not even the main plot, though I like that too. What I really love, the family that is so fascinating to me, is Edward’s family. The mother goes crazy, and her husband and children all accommodate it and live around it. I love that little world in the novel.” Read more...
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