Sally Goodchild is a woman whose entire life is turned upside down in a very foreign place where they speak her language - London A thirty-seven-year-old American journalist, she finds herself pregnant and married to an English foreign correspondent, Toby Hobbs, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo From the outset, Sally's relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one - she finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than she imagined