Author: Alison Lurie

This book won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985. I think, because of this award, I was expecting a much deeper story. Based on the title and the introduction of the main characters in the first two chapters I expected the affair would be between the two – I was wrong.

Vinnie and Fred are both professors at the same US college and both have been awarded grants to do research in London for publications they are working on. Vinnie loves England but lives a quite solitary life; Fred hates England because he and his wife have just separated and nothing is working out as planned.

Enter an English socialite and a Texan (need I say more) and life begins to change for Vinnie and Fred.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *