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'Riveting... Delicious... Gripping' Guardian 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. '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 'Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny' Irish Times
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Sweet tooth, Ian McEwan
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- Sweet tooth
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ian McEwan
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 370
- ISBN10
- 0099578786
- ISBN13
- 9780099578789
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Love, Friendship, British Literature, England, Literary Fiction, Great Britain, English Literature, Espionage, London, Teens, Studying, Spy Novels, Betrayal, Writers, Hatred, Secret Services, Cold War, Honey, British Secret Services
- First published
- 2012
- Original title
- Sweet Tooth
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- 'Riveting... Delicious... Gripping' Guardian 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. '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 'Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny' Irish Times