Polly Fenton loves her job teaching English in London, and she's mad about Max Fyfield. So it is with some trepidation that she prepares to leave both behind, to embark on a year-long teachers' exchange programme to Vermont, USA. Swapping cornflakes for Cheerios is one thing. Trading lives with her American counterpart Jen is quite another.
But the minute Polly's feet touch down Stateside, she's swept off them altogether. She's dazzled by new experiences, wooed by the brave new world; her letters become shorter, then less frequent. When she meets Chip Jonson, school athletic trainer, home thought cease altogether.
Meanwhile, back home, her boyfriend, his brother, her best friend and her replacement are forming quite the cosy foursome. If, by the end of the first term, a certain amount of bed-hopping seems inevitable, who is it to be? And more significantly, what are the results?
Spanning three terms and two countries, this is a sparky and sassy story of fidelity and flirtation , receiving one's comeuppance - and making amends.
