This month's book club guest was the Booker-winning author Ian McEwan, who joined us to discuss his novel Sweet Tooth. It's the story of a young woman who leaves university in 1970s to find herself swept into a chauvinistic world of espionage. McEwan explained how he uncovered the secrets of MI5, why he overlaid voices to create a mysteriously unpredictable narrator, and why the spy novel places a particular set of demands on a novelist.
Reading list
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (Cape)
