Jack and Sadie Rosenblum escape to England from Berlin just before the war. He wants to assimilate and become the perfect Englishman and she just wants to remember the past. Over the next almost 20 years he successfully operates a carpet business and they lose themselves and their relationship over time. But then he has the dream to build a golf course in the countryside . . . even though he has never played golf . . . because he thinks this is what the perfect Englishman does. The story is about the trials and tribulations of how he builds the course, but almost loses everything else in the process. But he discovers what is truly important, rebuilds his relationship with his wife and develops true friends before it is too late. Sweet and funny. It dragged a little in the middle of the book and I wasn't sure where the story was going. There was a build up to a sad ending but in the end everything wrapped up nicely.
