Foreign Affairs: Alison Lurie

`If you`re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs` Guardian

Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children`s literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by Chuck, a brash engineer wearing cowboy boots. She never imagines she`ll see him again. But wet, windy London turns out to be the setting for fresh beginnings, and for Vinnie, a place to take up space, breathe the air, and to refuse to become a minor character in one`s own life.

Foreign Affairs is a comic, heart-wrenching masterpiece of unexpected romance.