On Chesil Beach

by Ian McEwan

Thursday, July 5, 2007

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Loved this. It’s very short, only 166 pages before you start accounting for the three or four blank pages between each of the five chapters, but it’s the right length to tell the story. Any longer and it would have been a different book. The story all takes place on Edward and Florence’s wedding night though the narrative takes in what happens before and after too.