On Chesil Beach - Waterstones Limited Edition Slipcase Chatto & Windus The civil wars that have

The civil wars that have consumed both Rome and Egypt are about to reach their climax in the fabled city of Alexandria

she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger

She had a bad reputation

running his own show from an old fishmonger's in Spitalfields

As fast as the ever-encroaching kudzu vines of the region

On Chesil Beach - Waterstones Limited Edition Slipcase Chatto & Windus The civil wars that haveIt is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.