Subtitle from cover.

After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years. Will expects nothing more than a year off in Oxford before resuming the comfortable life he's always known but he's soon caught up in a whirlwind of unexpected friendships and romantic entanglements that threaten his safe plans.