"My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost 40 years
ago, I was sent on a secret mission for the British security service. I
didn't return safely. Within 18 months of joining, I was sacked, having
disgraced myself and ruined my lover, though he certainly had a hand in
his own undoing"
(Opening line)
Sweet Tooth is a sort of
"spy" novel, set in England in the early 1970s, which is also (or
mainly) a book on books & literature. And of course, another
must for McEwan fan(atic)s.
"I was the basest of
readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to
me in artful shapes and accesible form".
"I
turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way,
looking for something, a version of myself, a heroine I could slip
inside as one might a pair of favorite shoes."
Here is the audio of an interview with Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth (from 2012). By Eleanor Watchtel (Writers and Company, CBS, Toronto)
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