Foreign Affairs

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'Vinnie Miner, 54-year-old Anglophile professor, is in London on a six-month foundation grant. So is her young colleague, Fred Turner. Vinnie is plain and resignedly self-reliant; Fred is arrestingly handsome and moping after a breakup with his wife. Vinnie and Fred have love affairs in London. Fred's is a fraught liaison with a waitress while Vinnie drifts into a relationship with an engineer from Oklahoma she met on the plane, a brash uneducated stereotypical American who finally beguiles her (and the reader) with his uncomplicated goodness... I devoured the book at a sitting and then went back for a second dip at once' Penelope Lively,<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>

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Alison Lurie's non fiction books include studies of folklore and children's literature, and her novels include such favourites as<i>The War Between the Tates, The Truth about Lorin Jones,</i><i>Last Resort,</i>and the Pultizer Prize-winning,<i>Foreign Affairs</i>.

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