Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America Author:Dyan Sheldon Things turn out rather different from what she expected when Sophie Pitt-Turnbull takes a trip across the pond in this droll novel about culture clash. The summer her mother announces that they won't be taking their traditional holiday in France, sixteen-year-old Sophie Pitt-Turnbull is aghast and devastated. How can she possibly stay in London... more » when all her friends are going away? The prospect is so ghastly that when Jacqueline Salamance, Mummy's old art-school chum in New York, suggests they trade daughters for the summer, Sophie -- with visions of a loft in SoHo, weekends in the Hamptons, and shopping on Fifth Avenue -- feels her prayers have been answered. Unfortunately, there are a few small details that Mummy's neglected to tell her.« less