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Sweet tooth

McEwan, Ian. (Author).

Summary: Serena Frome, the beautiful 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: 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. A superb story of intrigue, love...and mutual betrayal.

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  • ISBN: 9780307363343 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: print
    323 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, c2012.
Subject: Women spies -- Fiction
Undercover operations -- Fiction
Genre: Spy stories.

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Summary: Serena Frome, the beautiful 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: 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. A superb story of intrigue, love...and mutual betrayal.

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