![]() ![]() So is it any surprise that McEwan gives us a novel that Serena might have liked to read? Our girl is a Cambridge graduate in 1972 and the best way to describe her life is to say that she’s one of those anonymous girls pushing around carts full of files in a John Le Carré novel. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment.” Conrad was beyond my consideration, as were most stories by Kipling and Hemingway. Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert. ![]() ![]() I wanted characters I could believe in, and I wanted to be made curious about what was to happen to them…. To the irritation of those around me, I’d turn a page every few seconds with an impatient snap of the wrist. It was a matter of letting my eyes and thoughts go soft, like wax, to take the impression fresh off the page. The Way We Live Now in four afternoons lying on my bed! I could take in a block of text or a whole paragraph in one visual gulp. Actually Sweet Tooth shines a pretty bright light on this weakness, because like me, its narrator, Serena Frome, is a lazy reader. I’ve never really known what to make of Ian McEwan. I often feel that I’m not quite clever enough to really grasp what he’s driving at. ![]()
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