Shortlisted for the Booker Prize: A novel of two 'wonderful characters' who meet by accident in Edwardian England, and fall inconveniently in love (The Washington Post). In 1912, rational scientist Fred Fairly, one of Cambridge's best and brightest, crashes his bike and wakes up in bed with a stranger-fellow casualty Daisy Saunders, a charming, pretty, and almost pathologically generous working-class nurse. So begins a series of complications-not only of the heart but also of the head-as Fred and Daisy take up each other's education and turn each other's philosophies upside down. From the recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award, among other honors, this is a story of an unlikely and possibly doomed romance.
