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From the bestselling author of Atonement and Enduring Love comes ‘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. 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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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 - 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 - Financial Times
Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny - 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 - Observer
Highly readable - Guardian, Books of the Year
McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self - GQ
Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with the arrival of this novel... An extraordinary, irresistible work of fiction - Sunday Business Post
One of the most hotly anticipated novels of the year...it’s brilliant - Sunday Business Post
I loved it. It reminded me of his most successful novel, Atonement - Harpers Bazaar Online
Ian McEwan proves he’s still the master penman with his twelfth novel - Grazia
McEwan’s prose is controlled, his observation forensic as ever... McEwan carries us with irresistible momentum to a surprise ending - Intelligent Life
Gripping - Evening Standard ES Magazine
Full of ideas - Metro
Dazzling - Essentials
Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with this arrival of this novel, because Sweet Tooth is McEwan's finest work since 2001's Atonement - Sunday Business Post
Given McEwan’s ability to make riveting fiction out of English politics (not easy), it would be hard to imagine anyone better equipped to write such a story... Delicious... Gripping - Guardian
His assumption of a female persona is pitch-perfect - Daily Mail
Had McEwan, through Serena’s benefit of hindsight in narrating her life, planted the clues? Let every reader have the pleasure of finding out - Sunday Express
An artful game of distortion... Clever handling - Mail on Sunday
A curious piece of autobiographical fiction - Evening Standard
A wisecracking thriller hightailing between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in... This is ultimately a book about writing, wordplay and knowingness - Sunday Telegraph
No contemporary novelist is more enthralled by what goes on inside the human skull than Ian McEwan... Sweet Tooth, which juxtaposes contrasting casts of mind, reminds you that, as well as intelligence, the intelligence service fascinates McEwan... Always excellent at conjuring up places and periods on the cusp of dramatic change... McEwan atmospherically resurrects the strife-ridden Britain of 1972 -73... Similarities and contrasts between the mentality and mind games of the secret service and those of the creative writer are increasingly brought to the fore. Doubling back and forth across genre boundaries, Sweet Tooth takes risks: narrative loiterings and twists whose purpose isn’t at first apparent, a payoff that is long delayed. But – ideally read more than once – this acute, witty novel is a winningly cunning addition to McEwan’s fictional surveys of intelligence - Sunday Time
Must read... Intrigue, love and mutual betrayal by a master of the art - The Lady
The great thing about McEwan is that, despite his success, he continues to work hard, producing ever more accessible and entertaining stories - Daily Mirror
Carefully researched - Daily Telegraph
McEwan, as always, presents an engaging narrator... The plot is fantastic... McEwan plays with the readers expectations, and surpasses them all with a fabulous ending that makes me itch to re-read this superb novel all over again. Sweet Tooth marks another triumph for a brilliant British author - Bookgeeks.co.uk
A pleasing, tricksy beast with a subsumed sense of metatextuality likely to be pleasing to his fans - Bookmunch
A triumphant shedding of genre limitations - London Review of Books
This most cunning of authors entertains and manipulates his readers. Sweet Tooth is a masterclass in the art of fiction - Book Oxygen
Ian McEwan is getting better and better… Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell - Evening Standard
McEwan’ssmoothly contrived thriller hightails between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in - Sunday Telegraph Seven
An expertly crafted thriller written with a bucketload of suspense and wit - Daily Express
As richly textured as anything Ian McEwan has written - Mai
Brilliantly cunning… It’s a story of love, betrayal and duplicity, with the most startling deception reserved for the final pages - Mail on Sunday (You)
Playful, clever, knowing and full of stories - Absolutely Chelsea
Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell - Scotsman
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.
