![]() ![]() Secret agent Frome is set up with Tom Haley, an up and coming short story writer. They get a weekly stipend, enough to ensure they don't have to slave away at thankless jobs and can devote more time to their writing. The project is called 'Sweet Tooth' and the aim is to recruit left leaning anti-communist writers and get them to produce ideologically sound novels and short stories.Ī fake foundation has been set up to through which to funnel cash to the writers who unwittingly think the whole deal is legitimate. It's the politically turbulent early seventies and Cambridge student Serena Frome, a mathematics student who also likes to speed read her way through a vast array of novels, is unknowingly groomed by her boyfriend-professor for a role as a secret agent within MI5. The plot is one of intrigue, false personalities and deceit. From the opening paragraph the pacing and sheer skill of the narrative creates an aura of suspense that doesn't let you go until the very last page. Ian McEwan's latest novel makes for addictive reading. ![]() ![]() McEwan’s page-turner of a novel examines life, literature, politics and betrayal. ![]() With the Cold War raging, Serena Frome is recruited as a secret spy, but promptly falls in love with the writer she is employed to manipulate. Sweet Tooth takes as its subject the culture wars of the early seventies and MI5's murky involvement in them. ![]()
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