Sweet Tooth, (Paperback)

from browner56

After a rather sterile upbringing and a diffident college education, a young woman is recruited by the British secret service to help fight the Cold War of the 1970s. Little more than a glorified administrative assistant initially, she soon secures her first covert operations assignment involving...

from rab1953

This is a book with a flaw. It purports to be about propaganda and literature: both literature as a form of propaganda and propaganda in other forms. Our protagonist, Serena (!) is first educated about ruling class propaganda in The Times of London and elsewhere by her left-leaning tutor, who tur...

from AgneJakubauskaite

WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Ian McEwan's "Sweet Tooth" is an intriguing novel about love, literature, espionage and politics in Britain during the 1970s. The story's protagonist Serena Frome is a recent Cambridge graduate with a degree in mathematics and a passion for novels. With the help from her lover, ...

from Cariola

I'm a huge McEwan fan--well, at least a fan of everything he has written from Enduring Love onwards. (I don't care for his earlier, kinkier, creepier fiction, although I did like The Child in Time.) But his latest, Sweet Tooth, fell short of my usual expectations. I missed the undercutting humor,...

from steve02476

Seemed like a clever, absorbing, but imperfect story until I got to the last chapter, which was.... unexpected and great. Maybe a little artificial - but perfect for the book.