Reading Group - Foreign Affairs

Two American academics - and unassuming Professor of Children's Literature and a brash engineer -  who could hardly be more different, meet awkwardly on a flight to London and are accidentally drawn into a well-meaning attempt to save a younger couple's fraught marriage. Full of sharp, subtle wit, and notable for it's shrewdly observed London setting, Alison Lurie's highly original comedy of middle-aged romance has has come to be regarded as a classic of amused sympathy.