

The movie replicates this nicely, but with a notably more emollient resolution.īilly Howle plays Edward, a role not so very different from his part as young Tony in the recent film version of Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending: smart, hardworking with a bit of a temper. The novel has a famous coup, in which McEwan telescopes the rest of Edward’s life into just a few pages – a brisk parade of inconsequence that allows you to understand how important that single evening had been.


The wedding night is a painful, intimately humiliating fiasco with devastating consequences. Emotional waste … Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan in On Chesil Beach.
