plot in a Nutshell
Our protagonist, Anna, is the kind of planner who probably labels her cereal โMondayโ and โTuesday.โ She defers a job at Goldman Sachs to spend a year studying Victorian poetry at Oxford. Naturally, she meets a charming, brooding poetry TA named Jamie yes, heโs her professor. Sparks and insta-bromance ensue among ancient libraries and fish-and-chips witticisms. But wait heโs terminally ill. She drops her job, he courageously (if questionably) refuses treatment, he dies, then she becomes a professor teaching his favorite poetry. Cue solo European โgrand tour,โ with zero signs of regret or sense.
Predictability Overload: The great twist professor secretly terminally ill is less โgut-punch plot twist,โ more โhere comes the tissues.โ The story pivot feels forced, turning a potentially quirky rom-com into a sad slog.