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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Sexual relationship between the two main characters
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of deception, literature, and the Cold War
What this book is about
McEwan's 2012 novel follows Serena Frome, recruited by MI5 to secretly fund a promising writer as a Cold War cultural operation. Features sexual content (Serena's relationship with the novelist) and a clever meta twist ending. For adults.
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