English as a Second Language

In this wickedly funny first novel-think Legally Blonde in Oxford-a young New York woman exchanges her corporate job for a year of books, blokes, beers, and new best friends in graduate school in England.

Alexandra Brennan is fed up with her dead end New York City job-and even more fed up of running into her smug ex-boyfriend. So when he crosses the line by telling her that she'll never get into graduate school in the United Kingdom, that's precisely what she does.

Armed with imported cigarettes and extra strength coffee, Alex leaves home and crosses the Atlantic to face all that Great Britain and grad school have to offer, including ill-considered romantic interludes, a red-headed nemesis with intellectual pretensions and ulterior motives, a preponderance of eighties music, and more books than she can possibly read in a year. What she discovers, however, is that instead of running away from home - she may have actually found it.

With a cheeky sense of humor and terrific cast of characters, English as a Second Language is a funny and irreverent novel about a young woman's misadventures on the path to adulthood.

Author: Megan Crane
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 08/01/2004
Pages: 277
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780446692861

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/21/2004 pg. 41
Booklist 07/01/2004 pg. 1816
Romantic Times 08/01/2004 pg. 125 - Excellent
Library Journal 08/01/2004 pg. 64
Library Journal 08/15/2004

About the Author
Megan Crane grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Vassar, and got her MA and PhD in literature from the University of York in England. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Visit her website at www.megancrane.com.