Random House Trade</br></br>Product Description</br></br>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE <br><br>Virginia Miner?? a fifty-something?? unmarried tenured professor?? is in London to work on her new book about children??s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport?? Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that?? she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel.<br><br>Also in London is Vinnie??s colleague Fred Turner?? a handsome?? flat broke?? newly separated?? and thoroughly miserable young man trying to focus on his own research. Instead?? he is distracted by a beautiful and unpredictable English actress and the world she belongs to. <br><br>B