Join the author for a discussion of his spy novel Sweet Tooth at Kings Place on Thursday 4 July
Date: Thursday 4 July
Time: 7pm
Venue: Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Price: £11.50/£9.50
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Ian McEwan will join John Mullan for a discussion of his spy novel, Sweet Tooth.
The novel is set in the early 1970s, during the turbulent years of soaring oil prices, economic disaster and the escalating threat of IRA terrorism. Serena Frome, a bishop's daughter and an avid reader of novels, finds herself recruited to MI5 following a brief affair with a Cambridge academic. She is sent on a secret Cold War propaganda mission to seduce a promising young writer into unknowingly serving his government. But when they embark on an affair, the lines between reality and fiction become increasingly blurred..
Sweet Tooth takes the familiar tropes of the Cold War thriller – secrecy, betrayal, deception – to examine fiction writing and the relationship between author and reader.
via Books: Fiction | guardian.co.uk
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