Sweet Tooth
Aug 2012 · Random House
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'A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning' Sunday Times
The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one.
The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one.
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3.5
25 reviews
Michael Coupe
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11 November 2015
Really well written as you'd expect from Mr McEwan and for the most part the bubbly main character lifts you along effortlessly. However, as things turn bleaker so too does experience in reading. A bittersweet ending leaves you feeling strangley unsatiated especially considering that every last aspect of the story is pored over and disected
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Pete Weston
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11 August 2014
Not McEwan's strongest novel I'm. I kept feeling it was verging on "chick lit" (he has used a female first person before, in Atonement, with success so I don't think that was the problem). However the last chapter justifies the book.
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Sajida Hussain
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9 August 2016
Am Sooo glad I brought this, The most compelling Book I have read, Beautifully written & the characters are all Soo fascinating
About the author
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
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