Review: Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

My book club chose this book and I thought it was pretty good. (It won the Pulitzer in the '80's so obviously some other people thought it was better than "pretty good.") In any case, it followed the story of two Americans who were in London for a few months for professional purposes. One, an older woman, is curmudgeonly and set in her ways - reminiscent of Olive Kitteridge. The other is a younger man, unexpectedly separated from his wife. Each of them fall in love with someone unlikely, and the book follows each of their struggles with love, and with their pasts. The TL;DR of this book would be that you can't escape yourself when you leave town. Great character development and good plotting.

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