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Sweet Tooth
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Sweet Tooth (2012) (edit title/settings)

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Serena Frome, the beautiful mathematician 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: Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and... read more

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  • Serena Frome: The novel's protagonist who works for M15. An obsessive reader.
  • Terry Mole: Character in short story by Tom Haley. Architect. Married to an unfaithful wife
  • Jeremy: Serena's college-time lover.
  • The Bishop: Serena's father.
  • Lucy: Serena's youngster sister.
  • Shirley Shilling: An outspoken women that works for M15. A friend of Serena's.
  • Tom Haley: Recruited by M15 to write a novel that goes along with England's government beliefs. Wrote his Ph.D dissertation on Spenser's Faerie Queen. Was undergraduate and postgraduate at University of Sussex in Brighton
  • Peter Nutting: MI5 employee who was congratulated on the recruitment of Tom
  • Tony Canning: An older university man who is very involved in politics and current news.
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  • “These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish. emotional cool, cooly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would still be living in mud huts, waiting to invent the wheel.”
    Serena Frome
  • “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 accessible form.”
    Serena Frome

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My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost forty years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the the British Security Service.

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  1. Ian McEwan (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: November 13, 2012
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Page Count: 320

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  • Library of Congress: PR6063.C4S94
  • Dewey: 823.914

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