Clever, poignant, and satisfying

Oh boy did I love Hello, Stranger, a moving and surprising love story

Poignant, profound and yet written with a light touch - Marks has done it again. The story engages from the off . . . This is a heartbreaking and heart-warming story

An eminently real and relatable love story about the tussle between head, heart and the costs of holding on to your own truth. Rachel Marks has perfectly captured the pleasure, pain and poignancy of being human - Lucy and Jamie had me at Hello...

Heart-warming . . . Lovely and thought-provoking

A book to cancel plans for - we're still not over the ending

A heartbreaking and heartwarming read that deals sensitively with difficult issues

A modern love story that's heartbreakingly tender & poignant. It kept me guessing & hoping until the last page. A fabulous read

Praise for Rachel Marks

Wise and wonderful. I adored it

Rachel Marks packs a novel with all the emotions - hope, fear, love, despair and - ultimately - joy

Heartbreaking, heartwarming, perfect

Heartbreaking and hopeful; this book is a keeper

Unpredictable and satisfying

Beautifully uplifting and at times unexpected

As tender and emotional as it is funny, it made me laugh out loud A LOT, and it made me sob

Heartbreaking, funny and emotive

Dazzling

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

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

His assumption of a female persona is pitch-perfect

Had McEwan, through Serena’s benefit of hindsight in narrating her life, planted the clues? Let every reader have the pleasure of finding out

An artful game of distortion... Clever handling

A curious piece of autobiographical fiction

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

No contemporary novelist is more enthralled by what goes on inside the human skull than Ian McEwan... Sweet Tooth, which juxtaposes contrasting casts of mind, reminds you that, as well as intelligence, the intelligence service fascinates McEwan... Always excellent at conjuring up places and periods on the cusp of dramatic change... McEwan atmospherically resurrects the strife-ridden Britain of 1972 -73... Similarities and contrasts between the mentality and mind games of the secret service and those of the creative writer are increasingly brought to the fore. Doubling back and forth across genre boundaries, Sweet Tooth takes risks: narrative loiterings and twists whose purpose isn’t at first apparent, a payoff that is long delayed. But – ideally read more than once – this acute, witty novel is a winningly cunning addition to McEwan’s fictional surveys of intelligence

Must read... Intrigue, love and mutual betrayal by a master of the art

The great thing about McEwan is that, despite his success, he continues to work hard, producing ever more accessible and entertaining stories

Carefully researched

McEwan, as always, presents an engaging narrator... The plot is fantastic... McEwan plays with the readers expectations, and surpasses them all with a fabulous ending that makes me itch to re-read this superb novel all over again. Sweet Tooth marks another triumph for a brilliant British author

A pleasing, tricksy beast with a subsumed sense of metatextuality likely to be pleasing to his fans

Adroitly done...highly diverting

A triumphant shedding of genre limitations

This most cunning of authors entertains and manipulates his readers. Sweet Tooth is a masterclass in the art of fiction

Ian McEwan is getting better and better… Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell

McEwan’ssmoothly contrived thriller hightails between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in

An expertly crafted thriller written with a bucketload of suspense and wit

As richly textured as anything Ian McEwan has written

Brilliantly cunning… It’s a story of love, betrayal and duplicity, with the most startling deception reserved for the final pages

Playful, clever, knowing and full of stories

Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell

Beyond virtuoso twists and turns, McEwan lays out the foreign landscape of 40 years ago – from smoky pubs to fuming punditry – with wry, affectionate panache

Tricksy, but satisfying

The sense of narrative purpose exerts its pull from the first