Sweet Tooth
Sweet Tooth
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Published:
9 May, 2013
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Description
'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.
Prizes
Short-listed for Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year 2013 (UK),Short-listed for Sainsburys eBook of the Year 2014 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099578789 |
| ISBN10 | 0099578786 |
| Number Of Pages | 384 |
| Item Weight | 312 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 26 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Highly entertaining * Guardian Books of the Year *
Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny * Irish Times *
Sweet Tooth takes the expectations and tropes of the Cold War thriller and ratchets up the suspense, while turning it into something else... A well-crafted pleasure to read, its smooth prose and slippery intelligence sliding down like cream * Independent *
Sublime...impressive...rich and enjoyable * Financial Times *
Riveting... Delicious... Gripping * Guardian *
A brilliant portrayal of 1970s Britain at its absolute worst… But it's also a gripping spy novel with some characteristic McEwan twists toward the end * Mail on Sunday *
A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning * Sunday Times *
Playful, comic... This is a great big Russian doll of a novel, and in its construction – deft, tight, exhilaratingly immaculate – is a huge part of its pleasure...exerts a keen emotional pull * Observer *
McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self * GQ *
Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with the arrival of this novel... An extraordinary, irresistible work of fiction * Sunday Business Post *
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Author's Bio
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. 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; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.