On Chesil Beach

她從未像那刻如此愛他，如此絕望，只要他的一絲聲音就能成為她的救贖，她就可以轉過身。但是他在夏日薄暮中冷冷站著，沉默不語，自以為是，看著她沿著海岸疾行，辛苦跋涉的腳步聲逐漸被細碎拍擊海岸的浪花聲淹沒，直到她變成一個遙遠模糊的針點……

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come…

On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.