A novel of remarkable depth and
poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
It is July 1962. Florence is a talented
musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the
perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history
student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and
won her heart.
Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and
Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their
rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night
to come.
Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence’s response
to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while
Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust
at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband
when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite.
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