Sweet Tooth Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth

A Novel

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Publisher Description

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Espionage and love entwine in this "utterly thrilling" (The Globe and Mail), tragic masterpiece from Booker Prize–winner Ian McEwan.

“A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal. . . . Winningly cunning.”—Sunday Times

"One of the most original, compelling works of McEwan's career." —Maclean's

Serena Frome, the beautiful mathematician daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge before taking a job with MI5 in London. The year is 1972: Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism; the Cold War has entered a moribund phase but the fight goes on and British Intelligence hesitates at little to influence hearts and minds. MI5 sends Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, on a secret mission that brings her to Tom Healy, 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? What is deception and who is deceiving whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage—trust no one. Ian McEwan's mastery is more dazzling than ever in this superb story of intrigue, love...and mutual betrayal.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2012
August 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
7
MB

Customer Reviews

Oopik007 ,

Wonderful

I am a fan of all of Ian McEwan's books, but this is possibly my favorite (or at least one of my favorites, along with Atonement and Amsterdam). I wasn't sure what to expect, and it took patience to let the character build gradually over the course of the book - but the result is brilliant (don't want to give anything away). I hope this gets made into a good movie.

Mjtslt ,

Brilliant

Outstanding, well written pager turner. Never wanted it to end.

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