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Sat 03 Mar 2007A great book about bad sexFiction:Ian McEwan loves the pivotal moment, the incident, the event which alters everything that follows and throws into relief everything which came before.Think of practically any of his books and you will almost certainly recall the relevant crisis, whether it's the ballooning accident in Enduring Love, the rape in Atonement, the coming together of two cars in Saturday, a walk in the countryside in Black Dogs or a trip to the supermarket in The Child In Time. If they surprise and unsettle the reader, they usually derail or destroy the characters involved.