Smart sarcastic Alexandra Brennan is bored with her deadend job in New York City and uncertain about where her life is headed. But when her smug ex tells her sh... » 

Smart sarcastic Alexandra Brennan is bored with her deadend job in New York City and uncertain about where her life is headed. But when her smug ex tells her she could never get into graduate school in the United Kingdom thats precisely what she does. Armed with American cigarettes and extrastrenght coffee Alex leaves home and crosses the Atlantic. Shes ready to face all that Great Britain has to offer including beer blokes 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 fount it... With a cheeky sense of humor and a terrific cast of characters English as a second language is the perfect novel for anyone who has ever thought about going back to school lusted after the wrong guy or wondered what her life was all about. «