Kathleen

What happens when eight Oxford undergraduates construct a woman from a single letter? The Scorpions, a mischievous society, discover Kathleen's correspondence to a fellow student and immediately fall in love with her - or rather, with the radiant creature their imaginations have conjured from her words. They embark on a whimsical quest across England to find this mysterious Kathleen, each convinced he's the one destined for her heart. But the real woman they eventually meet proves far more surprising than their carefully constructed fantasy. Christopher Morley crafts a delightful comedy of errors that captures the intoxicating foolishness of young men in love - or in love with the idea of being in love. The novel sparkles with early twentieth-century British humor while quietly asking what we lose when we build idols instead of seeking real people.