This deft Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the stories of a handful of characters 鈥 Americans and British 鈥 in search of love and life in London. At first glance Virginia Miner 鈥 a 50-something American academic drawn into an affair with a tourist from Oklahoma 鈥 may not seem a promising heroine for a romance. But this modest novel has magic to work and the tale that Lurie spins is comic, touching, and true.