Originally published: New York: Random House, 1984.
Vinnie Miner, an Anglophile professor, is in London on a six month foundation grant. So is her young colleague, Fred Turner. Fred is arrestingly handsome and moping after a breakup with his wife. Vinnie and Fred end up having love affairs in London. `If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by Chuck, a brash engineer wearing cowboy boots. She never imagines she'll see him again. But wet, windy London turns out to be the setting for fresh beginnings, and for Vinnie, a place to take up space, breathe the air, and to refuse to become a minor character in one's own life. Foreign Affairs is a comic, heart-wrenching masterpiece of unexpected romance. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AMANDA CRAIG