Elizabeth Visits America

A burst tyre, a muddy French lane, and a stranger who drops to help: Elizabeth’s first glimpse of America comes in the shape of a very tall man with a crooked nose and twinkling brown eyes.

In early-twentieth-century England, Elizabeth is nursing the hurt of a quarrel with her husband, Harry, who has gone off to Africa. At great-aunt Maria’s, an astonishing new automobile promises an escape from lonely days—and a comic, muddy tour with relatives determined to relive their honeymoon. But Elizabeth has plans of her own: she means to join her friend Octavia and travel in America, where new encounters may unsettle more than her ideas about the world. Witty, candid letters to her mother reveal a woman eager for fun, yet still entangled in marriage and expectation. What will Elizabeth find when the road takes her beyond the familiar?

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