The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale

Dorothy 'Dee' Gale is searching for a place to belong.

After their globe-trotting mother's death, Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas, where Dee attends graduate school.

But when Dee's relationship with a faculty member, a bestselling novelist, ends in heartbreak and humiliation, she's caught in a tornado of negative publicity.

Unable to face her colleagues - or her former lover - Dee applies to the writing program at Trinity College Dublin.

Dee's journey to Ireland leads her to new companions: seemingly brainless Sam Clery - who dropped out of college and now runs a newsagent's shop - is charming and hot, in a dissolute, Irish poet kind of way; allegedly heartless Tim Woodman - who stiffly refused to take back his ex-fiancee - seems stuck in his past; and fiercely loyal Reeti Kaur, who longs for the courage to tell her parents she wants to teach underprivileged girls rather than work in the family business.

In a year of opportunities and changes, lo