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Book SynopsisThis inspirational memoir will keep you chuckling, cheering, and biting your fingernails as you armchair-travel with a book-devouring, museum-hogging, food-savoring, fun-loving globe-trotter whose huge doses of optimism and humor helped her cope with several crises as she spent one academic year conducting field research in London.
Table of Contents1.Acknowledgments 2.Chap 1—Blundering in Barcelona 3.Chap 2—Getting There…and Over There 4.Chap 3—Stalking Royalty in the Highlands 5.Chap 4—A Solitary September 6.Chap 5—Afflicted 7.Chap 6—An Aegean Odyssey 8.Chap 7—Acquiring Englishness 9.Chap 8—Half A Month of Mood Swings 10.Chap 9—Troubles in Northern Ireland 11.Chap 10—Transnational Christmas 12.Chap 11—Freezing in February 13.Chap 12— Homeless (Or Very Nearly) 14.Chap 13—Operation Husband Hunt 15.Chap 14—Tales of Several Cities 16.Chap 15—Eastertide Adventures in Belgium and with the Bard 17.Chap 16—Grand Reunions on Both Sides of the Channel 18.Chap 17—With Country Squires in Farringdon and Suffolk 19.Chap 18—In Oxford: It’s Deja-Vu All Over Again 20.Chap 19—Last Hurrahs 21.Chap 20—Finally In France 22.Epilogue 23.About the Author
