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Informationen zum Autor Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites , won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time , which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden ; Enduring Love ; Amsterdam , which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement ; Saturday ; On Chesil Beach ; Solar ; Sweet Tooth ; The Children Act ; Nutshell ; Machines Like Me ; and Lessons . Atonement , Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen. Klappentext It's 1972 and the Cold War is far from over. Britain is being ravaged by industrial unrest and terrorism, and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being prepared for life in the MI5. Sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - Serena encounters a promising young writer who she begins to find herself falling for. Can she maintain her cover? And more importantly who is playing who? 'Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny' Arminta Wallace, "Irish Times" Zusammenfassung The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth – a highly secret undercover mission – she meets Tom Haley, a promising young writer. To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage – trust no one.
