On Chesil Beach (Shortlisted For Man Booker Prize For Fict)

Description:
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.

Prizes:
Winner of British Book Awards: Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2008.
Winner of British Book Awards: Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2008.
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007.
Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007.

Author Biography:
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.