Sweet Tooth

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

Riveting... Delicious... Gripping

Guardian

Highly entertaining

John Lanchester, Guardian Books of the Year

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

Sunday Times

Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny

Irish Times

Sublime...impressive...rich and enjoyable

Financial Times

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

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

McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self

GQ

Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with the arrival of this novel... An extraordinary, irresistible work of fiction

Sunday Business Post

One of the most hotly anticipated novels of the year...it's brilliant

Sunday Business Post

I loved it. It reminded me of his most successful novel, Atonement

Harpers Bazaar Online

Ian McEwan proves he’s still the master penman with his twelfth novel

Grazia

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

McEwan’s prose is controlled, his observation forensic as ever... McEwan carries us with irresistible momentum to a surprise ending

Maggie Ferguson, Intelligent Life

Gripping

Evening Standard ES Magazine

Full of ideas

Claire Allfree, Metro

Dazzling

Essentials

Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with this arrival of this novel, because Sweet Tooth is McEwan's finest work since 2001's Atonement

Kevin Power, Sunday Business Post

Given McEwan’s ability to make riveting fiction out of English politics (not easy), it would be hard to imagine anyone better equipped to write such a story... Delicious... Gripping

James Lasdun, Guardian

His assumption of a female persona is pitch-perfect

Michael Arditti, Daily Mail

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