The Diary Of An American Au Pair

Melissa is a sharp-eyed American abroad. Fired by her San Francisco ad agency, she cancels her impending wedding but soon regrets her next impulsive moue - across the Atlantic, as au pair to a minorly aristocratie British family, with the mother from hell, an ineffectual, sweet-natured father, and three children, one of them deaf. From freezing farmhouses and Island castles in Scotland, to a faded house at a smart London address, Melissa observes the natives in their classic habitats, with their bizarre manners and surprisingly gorgeous death-defying food. Urged to " try to speak as we do " she resists the effete charm of the British bourgeoisie but succumbs to the Jure of lemon shortbread, and the sexy appeal of a Jean and hungry Englishman.