Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Brooklyn star Saoirse Ronan has signed to to appear in an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, where she’ll play the female lead Florence.
McEwan’s novel is set in England in 1962 and “tells the story of Florence and husband, Edward, starting with the unspoken expectation of their marital duties that looms on their wedding night. Little did either party know at the time, but those unsuppressed anxieties will continue to plague their lives for years after ‘I do.'”
On Chesil Beach is being directed by Dominic Cooke (The Hollow Crown), with Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley (Carol) producing.
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Originally published February 19, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
