Edward and Florence, just married, July 1962. They have just arrived at a hotel on the Dorset coast struggling to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come... A new edition of this celebrated novel soon to be an unmissable film starring Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan 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 and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.