With Billy Howle, Saoirse Ronan, Andy Burse, Rasmus Hardiker. In 1962, newlyweds Edward and Florence, both in their early 20s and also both virgins, spend their honeymoon preoccupied and terrified by the upcoming consummation of their marriage. Based on Ian McEwan's novel. I highly recommend it for the beauty and poignancy of its writing and for the truth it at last allows. In 2007, the book was included on the Booker Prize shortlist. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night. “On Chesil Beach” has both a rich sense of how much more there is to life than sex, and also an acute awareness of how sex can overwhelm everything else. A humorous summary from The Guardian. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading On Chesil Beach. There is … "On Chesil Beach is a linguistic balancing act, each sentence delicately positioning itself both by historical co-ordinates -- an early-Sixties world of Austin 35s and wireless news bulletins -- and by more private reference points -- the separate anxieties and assumptions of the young bride and groom. Edward is a graduate student of history and Florence is a violinist in a string quartet. On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novella by British writer Ian McEwan. Starring: Saoirse Ronan Billy Howle Emily Watson Samuel West Anne-Marie Duff. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. On Chesil Beach is Ian McEwan’s short, exquisite novel (now BBC film) about a wedding night in a seaside hotel in 1962 that goes horribly wrong. The key to the novel is in the end in a short phrase thrown by the author: "Now how can roll over the entire route of life because of inactivity." Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting have just been married. On Chesil Beach is constructed around three such moments - the meal, the urgent fumbling towards consummation and a resultant exchange on the beach … On Chesil Beach concerns the wedding night of a young British couple in 1962. The novella opens in July 1962. So the book “On Chesil Beach, is the source to go to. I might almost suggest it as required reading for couples, if that word “required” didn’t make such a chore of it. On Chesil Beach is full of long sentences, they braid like a small maze, give summer heat, warm in the evenings. After writing the novel On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan wrote the screenplay that Dominic Cooke used for his film. It is the latest of many remarkable films adapted from McEwan's celebrated literary works. Directed by Dominic Cooke. On Chesil Beach. 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