Sophie Pitt-Turnbull discovers America (2003) is a young adult novel by Dyan Sheldon. It follows the adventures of a narrow-minded, very conventional girl, Sophie, as she ventures to America to stay with her mother's old friend, Mrs Salamanca. Initially she hates life in America and living with the Salamancas. However, over time, she comes to love the place and people.
Sophie Pitt-Turnbull lives in Putney, England. Every year, she is desperate to go to France. But with the arrival of her brother Xar and her father writing another novel she cannot go, much to her disappointment, particularly as her best friend Jocelyn Scolfield is going out with her ex.
Her mother's old art school friend Mrs Salamanca asks if Sophie would like to swap places with her daughter Cherry who wants to go to Europe.
When Sophie arrives at JFK New York City airport she is surprised to find that Jake (Mrs Salamanca) arrives very late, is a Brooklyn resident and drives a run down van. When Sophie arrives with them at her new home she is shocked to find that she has to share a room with Cherry's sister. She sleeps on a mattress on the floor.
Sophie is most upset to find that her case is not there and has been lost by the airline. On Monday Jake goes to work Sophie is horrified to find herself looking after the two younger children. She drops them off at clue and spends the rest of the proceeding days doing Yoga in the living room.
Read more about Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America: Companion Novel
Famous quotes containing the words discovers and/or america:
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Where we come from in America no longer signifies—it’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
The irony of the role of women in my business, and in so many other places, too, was that while we began by demanding that we be allowed to mimic the ways of men, we wound up knowing we would have to change those ways. Not only because those ways were not like ours, but because they simply did not work.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)