I read this August 2016 as it is the October book for Book Club. I have a bit of a love / hate relationship with Ian McEwen books, some are dire some are good.
This book is set in London/Cambridge in the days of the Cold War and the miners strike and the 3 day week. early 1970's bleak Britian...
Serena a clergyman's daughter, maths graduate, avud reader is groomed by an older man to work for MI5.
Unusually I didn't hate Serena.....she did seem somewhat plausible....
Serena is send to recruit an author, she seems to fall in love with every officious, self ecentred male figure she comes across.
It was a book in 4 parts for me, the first quarter I didn't mind, second and third I found a bit tedious at times, trying to move the plot along in my mind, but the writing and asides seemed to hold everything up for me, the fourth quarter was Ok again (was I just glad to have got through it? ) It turms out that the author is writing this book from Serena's standpoint as he sees it. I quite liked that idea...
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