Sweet Tooth (Hardback)
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Short Description for Sweet Tooth In this stunning new novel, Ian McEwan's first female protagonist since `Atonement` is about to learn that espionage is the ultimate seduction. Cambridge student Serena Frome's beauty and intelligence make her the ideal recruit for MI5. The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. England's legendary intelligence agency is determined to manipulate the cultural conversation by funding writers w...
Full description- Publisher: Nan A. Talese
- Published: 13 November 2012
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Crime | Espionage | Historical Romance
- ISBN 13: 9780385536820 ISBN 10: 0385536828
- Sales rank: 20,485
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brilliant
Sweet Tooth is the 14th book by British author, Ian McEwan. Serena Frome's story is narrated in detail essentially from the time she first gets involved with the man who will usher her into a position in MI5, in the early 70's Britain. Serena is a compulsive reader of fiction and her first "secret mission" is to cultivate promising young author, Tom Haley. Their mutual attraction ensures they step beyond the boundaries set by her superiors, and before long, things start to unravel. While a working knowledge of British politics of the seventies plays would enhance the enjoyment of this novel, it is not requisite. McEwan presents the reader with a delicious irony when Serena tells us she distrusts any kind of fictional trick, something of which McEwan is a master. Once again, he fools the reader but, whereas I felt cheated by it in Atonement, this time I revelled in it. The end has the reader wondering: just whose words are we actually reading? The answer is very simple: those of a brilliant novelist. by Marianne Vincent
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