Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach, part one

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents, married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their room, they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come...
From Ian McEwan, winner of the Whitbread Best Novel Award (The Child in Time), the Booker Prize (Amsterdam), and the National Book Critics Circle Award (Atonement), comes a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
It is spring 2007. An American bookseller and filmmaker spend the day with McEwan in London. By film's end, a press kerfuffle has been averted, Kafka has come up in conversation twice, and the natural balance of England's beaches has been restored.

[@ValeryCrickets]

Why is this music so loud??? It's impossible to understand what McEwan is reading...!

[@milesknightestrada3286]

You're not missing much anyway.