Ian McEwan has written two collections of stories,First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets,and ten novels, The Cement Garden, The Comfort olc Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent,Black Dogs, The Daydreamer, Enduring Love,Amsterdam, Atonement and Saturday. He won theBooker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998.

It 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...