故事设置在微妙的六十年代初，嬉皮士刚开始学习放荡，传统派依然坚挺，“根本不可能对性事困扰说长道短的年代”尚未落幕。爱德华和弗洛伦斯的蜜月晚餐忐忑、紧张、充满误解。初夜的那场爱，终是没有做成。一整本细腻如丝的词句囊括了性和爱，却分裂在各自的肉体和内心，在这本书的世界里，他 和她永远无法合二为一。

英国“国民作家”麦克尤恩通过性爱观念这个独特视角回顾青葱岁月的温情小品，细腻温婉却劲道十足，牵惹情思又回味悠长。

‘On Chesil Beach is more than an event. It is a masterpiece’

KARL MILLER, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

‘A fine book, homing in with devastating precision on a kind of Englishness which McEwan understands better than any other living writer, the Englishness of deceit, evasion, repression and regret’

JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY