Sweet tooth
By: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780224097383; 9780224097376
Subjects: Women spies; Fiction
Description: Britain, 1972. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year at Cambridge. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena is sent on a 'secret mission' which brings her into the literary 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?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.