Sweet Tooth

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 *

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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