In Sweet Tooth. Ian McEwan tells the story of Serena Frome’s brief career with MI5, a British military intelligence group and how falling in love ended her career and disgraced her lover. The story is told from a distance of 40 years from the events that happened. Through many twists and turns, readers learn that spies are not the only masters of deception.
Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such...
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Ian McEwan first came to public notice in 1975; he was immediately recognized as an important and new voice on the fictional scene. Along with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, his contemporaries, he is ...
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Ian (Russell) McEwan