Audio Book Description:
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 earnestyoung history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edwardand Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinnerin their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward,eager for rapture, frets over Florence`sresponse to his advances and nurses a private fear offailure, while Florence`s anxieties run deeper; sheis overcome by sheer disgust atthe idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finallylie down together in thehoneymoon suite.
