The Economist (US), March 31st, 2007
IAN McEWAN is back on form. Following "Saturday", his enjoyable but overly safe previous novel, this master of fiction has written a poignant new book that in terms of its diminutive size--though not its emotional range--is reminiscent of his Man Booker-prize-winning "Amsterdam". It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, both 22 years old, educated yet innocent, have been married for just eight hours after a courtship bound by unspoken protocols. In their honeymoon suite overlooking Chesil Beach on the Dorset coast they are served a formal dinner of long-ago roasted beef in thickened gravy, soft-...
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