Saoirse Ronan to star in Ian McEwan's Chesil Beach film adaption

• 18 February 2016
• From the section Entertainment & Arts - BBC

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Saoirse Ronan previously featured in another Ian McEwan film adaptation, 2007's Atonement, for which she was nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar

Oscar-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan is to star in a movie version of the bestselling novel On Chesil Beach.

The 2007 Booker Prize shortlisted novel by Ian McEwan is set in 1962 and tells the story of young newly-weds on honeymoon on the Dorset coast.
Ronan - up for the best actress Oscar for Brooklyn - will play the young wife Florence but her co-star, playing her husband Edward, is yet to be announced.

The film will be Ronan's second McEwan adaptation after 2007's Atonement.  More