Sweet Tooth

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Espionage and love entwine in this "utterly thrilling" (The Globe and Mail), tragic masterpiece from Booker Prize–winner Ian McEwan.

“A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal. . . . Winningly cunning.”—Sunday Times

"One of the most original, compelling works of McEwan's career." —Maclean's

Serena Frome, the beautiful mathematician daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge before taking a job with MI5 in London. The year is 1972: Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism; the Cold War has entered a moribund phase but the fight goes on and British Intelligence hesitates at little to influence hearts and minds. MI5 sends Serena,… Keep Reading