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The story is about the wedding night of Edward and Florence, a young couple from England in the sixties. Edward and Florence have very different backgrounds: she is a passionate violinist who belongs to a wealthy family and he is a country boy who had studied History. Their little sexual experience, the constant misunderstandings and the different expectations about marriage cause a dramatic situation.

McEwan describes human behavior and feelings in a way that makes it easy to identify with the characters. Though it is a short novel, the text is very poetic and sometimes I had to read some paragraphs several times to understand them totally.

About the author
AIan Russell McEwan was born in Aldershot, England, on 21st June 1948. He is a Booker Prize-winning English novelist and screenwriter. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year.

LEVEL: upper intermediate
Score: 9/10

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