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This post contains spoilers forOn Chesil Beach, both the book and the movie.
(McEwan wrote the script.)
Suddenly, her total aversion to sex has a clear explanation.
I wasnt quite sure what to make of it.
Savvier readers than I, likeDave at the Reading Bug, picked up the clues.
(Note the odd use of his first name, and the absence of Florences mother.)
These memories get particularly sharp when Florence and Edward are about to have sex.
It was the smell of the sea that summoned it.
Her mind was blank, she felt she was in disgrace.
After a two-day crossing, they were once more in the calm of Carteret harbour, south of Cherbourg.
Her only task was to keep her eyes closed and to think of a tune she liked.
But if you completely missed it too, dont be too hard on yourself.
Many readers will miss it altogether, which is fine.
