A lonely British woman strikes up a pen pal friendship with a successful American author and they offer each other help and support with their relationship dramas before agreeing to finally meet up in Paris.
A woman in crisis remembers a summer of hedonism that changed her life, in this novel about being "caught between the wiles of youth and the wisdom of age" ( Booklist ). When Frances was twenty-two, she was drifting, scraping by giving English lessons in Mexico, when she met ...