After her mother's death Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in
Kansas and Dee attended the University of Kansas. But after falling in love with and
subsequently being humiliated by an adjunct faculty member and novelist Dee is unable to face
him--and the rest of the school--and applies to the writing program at Trinity College Dublin.
At Trinity Dee finds solace in a new group of friends: Sam Clery who dropped out of college
and now runs a newsagents ('No brains ' his sister says) .... Tim Woodman who refused to take
back his ex-fiancâee ('You have no heart ' she accuses) ... and Reeti Kaur who is kindhearted
but too afraid to tell her parents she wants to teach underprivileged girls rather than obtain
her MBA and work in the family business ('I basically have no courage ' she says). Throughout
the semesters the friends grow closer and encounter new opportunities love and heartbreak
