![]() ![]() ![]() A well-crafted pleasure to read, its smooth prose and slippery intelligence sliding down like cream Independent Sweet Tooth takes the expectations and tropes of the Cold War thriller and ratchets up the suspense, while turning it into something else. Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny Irish Times ![]() Acute, witty.winningly cunning Sunday Times Highly entertaining John Lanchester, Guardian Books of the YearĪ web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal. Enthralling, beguiling and totally addictive from the first page to the last… McEwan’s sense of time and place is authentic with his trademark attention to details of the social history of the period Bristol MagazineĪ brilliant portrayal of 1970s Britain at its absolute worst… But it's also a gripping spy novel with some characteristic McEwan twists toward the end Mail on Sunday ![]()
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