On Chesil Beach

I've just finished reading 'On Chesil Beach' by Ian McEwan. I really enjoyed it. The story is set in a small seaside hotel, where a young couple spend their wedding night. The description of the awkwardness and embarrassment with which the couple approach their first sex is painful to read. It's quite strange, I read the first chapter of this in The Guardian, and it felt like it could have been set in the 19th century, but in fact it is placed in the early 1960s and shows how different things were before the sexual revolution of the swinging sixties. I found the story somewhat depressing, especially how sexual innocence and lack of communication can damage things so easily.