Armed with a romantic soul and a pressing need to escape her overbearing family, Rachael Weiss heads for Prague with vague plans to writea greatnovel and perhaps, just perhaps, fall madly in love with an exotic Czech man with high cheekbones. They make it seem so easy, those other women who write of uprooting themselves from everything they know, crossing the world and forming effortless friendships with strangersdespite not understanding a word they saywhile reinventing themselves in beautiful European cities. So it's not surprising that Rachael is completely unprepared for the realities...