Polly
By: Freya North
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780007462193; 9780007462209
Subjects: English fiction; Teacher exchange programs; Fiction
Description: Polly Fenton loves her job teaching English and her boyfriend Max, but she leaves them both behind on an exchange visit to Vermont. Polly is dazzled and overwhelmed by new experiences in this new world, while Max remains less than faithful at home.
Notes: Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1998.
Table of contents: title: Paperback -Polly Fenton loves her job teaching English in London, and she's mad about Max Fyfield. But she's leaving both behind to embark on a year-long teachers' exchange to Vermont. Swapping Marmite for Hershey bars and cornflakes for Cheerios is one thing. Trading lives with her American counterpart Jen is quite another. But the minute Polly's feet touch down Stateside, she's swept off them altogether. When she meets Chip Jonson, school athletic trainer, home thoughts from abroad cease altogether. Meanwhile, her boyfriend, his brother, her best friend and her replacement are forming a cosy foursome. If, by the end of the first term, a certain amount of bed-hopping seems inevitable, who is it to be? Spanning three terms and two countries, this is a sparky and sassy story of New England and Old England, fidelity and flirtation, receiving one's comeuppance; title: and making amends.