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Sweet Tooth

Ian McEwan

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English
Arrow
01 May 2013
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 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.
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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   310g
ISBN:   9780099578789
ISBN 10:   0099578786
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ian McEwan is the author of two collections of stories and twelve previous novels, including Enduring Love, Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement and, most recently, Solar.

Reviews for Sweet Tooth

Riveting... Delicious... Gripping Guardian 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 -- Amanda Craig Independent A thoroughly clever novel...a sublime novel about novels, about writing them and reading them and the spying that goes on in doing both...very impressive...rich and enjoyable -- Lucy Kellaway Financial Times Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny -- Arminta Wallace Irish 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 -- Julie Myerson Observer


  • Short-listed for Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Political Fiction Book of the Year 2013
  • Short-listed for Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year 2013 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Sainsbury's eBook of the Year 2014
  • Short-listed for Sainsbury's eBook of the Year 2014 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Sainsburys eBook of the Year 2014 (UK)
  • Shortlisted for Paddy Power and Total Politics Political Book Awards: Political Book of the Year 2013.
  • Shortlisted for Paddy Power and Total Politics Political Book Awards: Politics Book of the Year 2013.
  • Shortlisted for Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Political Fiction Book of the Year 2013.
  • Shortlisted for Sainsbury's eBook of the Year 2014.
  • Winner of Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Political Fiction Book of the Year 2013.

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