Summary
Re-jacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, Sweet Tooth is a story of love and espionage in 1970s Britain from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan.
‘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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099578789 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099578786 |
| Author: | Ian McEwan |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Highly entertaining
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 *
About The Author
Ian McEwan
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.
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