It is the 1970s and Oxford's male institutions are finally opening their
doors to women. Sarah Addleshaw, young, spirited and keen to prove her
worth, begins term as the first female academic at her college. She is
in fact, her college's only female "Fellow." Impulsive love
affairs--with people, places and the ideas in her head--beset Sarah
throughout her first exhilarating year as a don, but it is the Reading
Party, that has the most dramatic impact. Asked to accompany the first
mixed group of students on the annual college trip to Cornwall, Sarah
finds herself illicitly drawn to one of them, the suave American Tyler.
Torn between professional integrity and personal feelings, she faces her
biggest challenge to date