Unabridged on 4 library edition CDs. A novel set in 1962. Florence is a musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with her lover, Edward a young history student at University College of London. Newly married and both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. Florence is disgusted at the idea of physical contact and Edward is scared. McEwan writes of the innocence of two people -- a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.