#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A subtly and sweetly subversive novel [that is a] masterful manipulation of the relationship(s) between fiction and truth ... Britain’s foremost living novelist has written a book as drily funny as it is thoughtful." — Kirkus Reviews , starred review "McEwan''s most stylish and personal book to date ... The year''s most intensely enjoyable novel." — The Daily Beast “This is a great big beautiful Russian doll of a novel, and its construction – deft, tight, exhilaratingly immaculate – is a huge part of its pleasure ...  Sweet Tooth  is a comic novel and a novel of ideas, but, unlike so many of those, it also exerts a keen emotional pull.” —Julie Myerson,  The Observer  "Thoroughly clever ... a sublime novel about novels, about writing them and reading them and the spying that goes on in doing both ... McEwan has spied on real life to write  Sweet Tooth , and in reading it we are invited to spy on him ... Rich and enjoyable." — Financial Times "A wisecracking thriller hightailing between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in … This is ultimately a book about writing, wordplay and knowingness." — The Telegraph “McEwan writes with his usual clinical precision, brilliantly evoking the London of dingy Camden flats, the three-day week and IRA atrocities. His assumption of a female persona is pitch-perfect.