" I loved this spare, sorrowful novel about the wedding night of a sexually naive English couple. The novel reaches back (and then forward) in time so you have a wonderful sense of the individual personalities and aspirations of both the man and woman. The haunting question in the book is whether the marriage would have worked even if the wedding night had been more successful. In an way, this is my favorite of all the fine McEwan novels that I have read, in that it is one of the most direct and uncomplicated."
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