On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

I finished this earlier in the week. I also enjoyed this, although I think I would agree with giving the Booker Prize to The Gathering instead - I think it has the slight edge. However, I did enjoy reading this novella; the first three chapters at least. The build up to the consummation of the marriage, the intrepidation, nervousness and fear, I thought was very well presented, interspersed with memories of the courting leading to the marriage. However, I was a bit disappointed with the anticlimax, which seemed a bit of a cop out. I would have been interested to see how McEwan handled the fall out if things had turned out slightly differently.