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Sweet Tooth: Ian Mcewan

Sweet Tooth: Ian Mcewan

by IanMcEwan (Author)

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Synopsis

"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. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her into the world of 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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09 May 2013
ISBN 10: 0099578786
ISBN 13: 9780099578789
Book Overview: Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, Sweet Tooth is a story of love and espionage in 1970s Britain from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan.
 Prizes: Winner of Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Political Fiction Book of the Year 2013. Shortlisted for Sainsbury's eBook of the Year 2014 and Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Political Fiction Book of the Year 2013.

Media Reviews
Riveting... Delicious... Gripping * Guardian *
Highly entertaining -- John Lanchester * Guardian Books of the Year *
A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning * Sunday Times *
Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny * Irish Times *
Sublime...impressive...rich and enjoyable * Financial Times *
Author Bio
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.