Philippa Feast is the undeniably neurotic yet endearing protagonist in this offbeat story of flirtation, friendship, and love in the university student setting. While driven to obsessive analysis of her relationship with the attractive Ralph Thorn, it is Philippa's dogged work ethic, wry sense of humor, and joie de vivre that see her through not only her year of graduate studies but also the dilemmas that love and work mercilessly cast in her path. Kimberly Labor, educated in France, England, and the USA, is the author also of I DREAM OF YOU STILL: EARLY YEARS IN BATH, a memoir; and BEATRICE AFLAME, a novel.