Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough

A friend lent me this book to read over the weekend, and I laughed through each chapter of traveling adventures. This is the work of two mothers recounting a hilarious trip to England and France when both were nineteen, naive, and feeling quite grown-up. The book is written from Cornelia's point of view, as she seems to have been the one to loyally rescue her friend Emily from a constant stream of adventures. Whether it is tossing a deck chair to the man overboard (and knocking him unconscious) to contracting measles and narrowly escaping months of quarantine, these two debutantes made the most of their summer abroad. I highly recommend this European travelogue