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Sweet Tooth
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
Shortlisted for: Audiobook of the Year – Specsavers National Book Awards 2012
Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere.
Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a ‘secret mission’ that 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? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage – trust no one.
McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.
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- Chris Martin
- 31-07-14
Twisted Tale
This is a beautifully crafted tale which has a wonderful twist in its conclusion but also deals so well with human feelings and the struggle between duty and love.
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- L
- 25-03-13
quite good.
Not one of McEwan's best but still pretty good. Juliet Stevenson's voice was perfect and it was very atmospheric and kept my interest throughout. Good ending too.
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- Sally
- 23-10-12
Worth a read - love the ending
I liked this book but struggled to really sympathise with the main character. However, I loved the ending - a real twist!!
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- Lucy
- 25-03-17
Seventies time warp
I loved this book. It is beautifully written and evokes the whole feel of the seventies. The research and details of MI5 are authentic and the characters are detailed and believable. I loved the ending. Well read by Juliet Stevenson who was a contemporary of mine at school.
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-08-17
Highest craftsmanship and imagination
Brilliantly sustained narrative with a final brilliant twist in the tale. I was gripped from start to finish.
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- Matilde Solares
- 23-11-17
Amazing book
Love the story, amazing book! The narrator is the best, totally suitable for this book.
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- Kirstine
- 30-12-12
A splendid book
From the very beginning I was drawn into this book not least because of Juliet Stevenson's lovely voice. It's a mutli-layered narrative set in the early 70s with a backdrop of the three-day week, strikes and political upheaval, MI5 operations but in the forefront are the human relationships. The characters spring to life and I wanted to know what happens to them. I was sorry when the book ended.
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- Louise A.
- 01-01-14
Great book - thoroughly enjoyed it
This is an evocative book, sensitively written with an excellent portrayal of the main female character and her existence in a man's world. Set in the 1970's it tells the story of Serena, a spy working for the government during the Cold War. The references to life in England during the Thatcher era were fascinating and very insightful. The narration was fantastic and the excellent Juliet Stevenson narrated each character with ease and fluidity.
There is a gripping plot line that keeps you listening and a couple of turns that you may not be expecting. Overall a thoroughly good listen!
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-12-14
enjoyable and surprising
Surprising , engageing to the ladt chapter. Beautifully read with feeling and understanding.
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- Maddy
- 26-03-13
Spoiled by the ending
I agree with one reviewer that William Boyd does the spy stuff better - for me it was in Restless which also has a female central character. But I enjoyed the book, partly because it evoked elements of my own student days and early 20s and partly because it is, at least at the beginning, a good tale well told. I thought McEwan got inside Serena and her time very well. I also liked the artifice of the stories within the the story. But the contrived ending was a real disappointment and tainted the rest of the book for me afterwards. Brilliantly read by Juliet Stephenson.
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