Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach. Have you read it?

[jane_pippin]

Did you like it?

I just finished it a few days ago and I loved it! I thought that the language was gorgeous, the pace of the story (and how it changed), and the plot itself was fantastic. And it was hilarious too, but I haven't heard a lot of people say that yet.

It's the first thing I've read by him which makes me tragically lame, I know, but man, was it good. It made me want to read everything else by him.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. So what's it about?

I read a lot and am always in the hunt for new authors. More info please.

[jane_pippin]

2. Sure. It's about a young couple on their wedding night...

both are virgins and it's set in the beginning of the 60s. He writes about their anxieties, hopes for the evening, hopes for the future, how they got to be where they are. It's a very beautiful, simple little book. Well, a simple concept but it happens to encompass such a wide range of emotions and experiences, and opportunities taken and not. The pace of it is what gets me the most. One of my friends described it as a "tone poem" almost, and I think she's on to something with that.

And the ending, which I of course won't give away, was so unexpected in some ways but in others it just couldn't end any other way.

[abluelady]

3. Do Read Everything Else By Him

You won't be disappointed!