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Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth

Author(s): Ian McEwan

Location(s): Cambridge, England

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern looking back to the 1970s

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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.

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The author conjures up the feel of the 70s, really well observed and largely accurate view of the early 70’s – Serena J –

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