When Kate discovers her father's plot to marry her off to his awkward lab assistant Pyotr so he can stay in the country, she is furious. Kate is no pushover, but will she be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round?
Anne Tyler, prizewinning author of "A Spool of Blue Thread", reimagines Shakespeare's controversial comedy "The Taming of the Shrew".