![]() ![]() Through precisely timed memory-flashbacks and interior monologues we are presented with two complex and insecure characters, who both hold extremely personal secrets they are terrified of having discovered.įrom the outset McEwan gives a frank and intimate insight into the couple. The main action of On Chesil Beach takes place over just a few hours, one early evening in July 1962 on the wedding day of Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting. ![]() On Chesil Beach (2018) is a prime example of how problems of channeling one medium to the other are perhaps insurmountable for character-based stories such as this 2007 novella. I went to see the recent adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel On Chesil Beach because I thought, ‘Wow, they’re going to adapt that? How will that work?!’ The answer is, it didn’t. How much can you say with a look? (On Chesil Beach, 2018) ![]()
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