Sweet Tooth

Sublime...impressive...rich and enjoyable

Financial Times

Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny

Irish Times

Sweet Tooth takes the expectations and tropes of the Cold War thriller and ratchets up the suspense, while turning it into something else... A well-crafted pleasure to read, its smooth prose and slippery intelligence sliding down like cream

Independent

Playful, comic... This is a great big Russian doll of a novel, and in its construction - deft, tight, exhilaratingly immaculate - is a huge part of its pleasure...exerts a keen emotional pull

Observer

Riveting... Delicious... Gripping

Guardian

Highly entertaining

John Lanchester, Guardian Books of the Year

Enthralling, beguiling and totally addictive from the first page to the last. McEwan's sense of time and place is authentic with his trademark attention to details of the social history of the period

Bristol Magazine

A brilliant portrayal of 1970s Britain at its absolute worst. But it's also a gripping spy novel with some characteristic McEwan twists toward the end

Mail on Sunday

A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning

Sunday Times