![]() She is pointed towards a young novelist, Tom Haley, teaching at Sussex University (McEwan's alma mater). Serena is very pretty – she tells us this as she recounts her progress from bishop's daughter to Cambridge and on to Curzon Street as an MI5 operative. Why would he have recruited her, a young woman with a third in maths, to go scouting for writers? Anyway, she gets the job at MI5, a place apparently peopled by caricatured chauvinists from posh schools, who treat the women as menials even though most of them have first-class degrees. The words "Cambridge" and "don" in proximity in a spy novel very quickly raised suspicions in this reader's mind. ![]() She is recruited almost as a legacy of her middle-aged lover, a Cambridge don, just before he ditches her and heads for an island in the Baltic. Serena Frome is an unlikely candidate for a job at MI5. ![]()
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