Professor of English literature Winnie Miner is fifty-four, she is not very beautiful and has long given up on her personal life. Having been married, Winnie abandoned the idea of marriage once and for all. Occasionally, partners appear in her bed, but nothing more. She is happy with her life, work and herself. But everything changes when Vinnie once again goes to England. And her life was stirred up by the uncouth lout Chuck from the American outback... Fred Turner, Vinny's young colleague, is indecently handsome and hates England. In this country, literally everything irritates him: food, weather, aborigines. His London life is a complete melancholy, until Rosemary, the brilliant star of British soap operas, bursts into it... Neither Fred nor Vinnie thought about foreign connections when they went to England, but it was they who entangled them in a dense cocoon of love, melancholy, slight madness and subtle English humor. “Foreign Relations” is a novel about love, a novel about loneliness, which received the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the United States. It was “Foreign Connections” that brought Alison Lurie fame; the novel was translated into many languages and filmed.