Sweet Tooth

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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 infuence hearts and minds. MI5 sends Serena a compulsive reader of novels on a secret mission that brings her to Tom Healy 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? What is deception and who is deceiving whom? To answer these questions Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage -- trust no one. Ian McEwan's mastery is more dazzling than ever in this superb story of intrigue love... and mutual betrayal.