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By (author) Espach Alison
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For fans of Really Good Actually and Romantic Comedy, a funny and touching novel about a woman who checks in to a glamorous hotel at the lowest point in her life, only to find herself swept into a stranger”s wedding and forever changed by her entanglement in their dysfunctional family
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”WICKEDLY FUNNY” JENNY JACKSON
”A PERFECT NOVEL” CATHERINE NEWMAN
”I LOVED IT” PANDORA SYKES
It”s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mistaken for one of the wedding people – but she”s actually the only guest at the Cornwall Inn who isn”t here for the big event.
Phoebe has dreamed of coming here for years. She hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband but now she is divorced and depressed, and not sure how to go on. She”s not been sure how to do anything, lately, except climb into bed and drink gin and tonics and listen to the sound of the refrigerator making ice.
When the bride discovers her elaborate destination wedding could be ruined by this sad stranger, she is furious. She has spent months accounting for every detail and every possible disaster – except for, well, Phoebe . . . Soon, both women find their best-laid plans derailed and an unlikely confidante in one another.
Uproariously funny and devastatingly tender, The Wedding People is an irresistible novel about love, friendship, dysfunctional families, and the unexpected paths that lead to happiness.
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The Wedding People is the perfect book to wrap up your summer reading. It is heartwarming, hilarious, it”s a love story – it”s about love, loss and the people who come into our lives and change it forever. You guys are going to love this book!
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The the best read of the year so far
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Fans of Sorrow and Bliss will, like me, adore The Wedding People, which is my book of the summer. As soon as I”d finished it, I wanted to read it all over again!
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Espach”s writing reminds me of Katherine Heiny”s – keenly observant, ruthlessly honest, quietly elegant and utterly charming, with the ability to make you quietly weep when you least expect it . . . Nothing turns out the way anybody plans – but exactly as it should. I loved it
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The Wedding People is a wickedly funny and deeply satisfying novel about a woman with nothing to lose, armed with a green dress, some chocolate wine, and a coconut pillow, cut loose to cause delightful mayhem. It”s a story of lovers who turn into strangers, strangers who turn into friends, and the weird and wonderful connections that make us feel truly alive. I loved it
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Alison Espach! How does she do it? I mean, really – how? The Wedding People is so utterly, ringingly true it feels less like fiction than like a field guide to personhood. It”s so funny and romantic that I sometimes laughed out loud and sometimes got actual goosebumps. I tore through it like I didn”t have a disordered deficit of attention. It”s a perfect novel. I loved it
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I loved it I loved it I loved it. This is pure joy in book form. I want to live in it. I did live in it, in this hotel by the ocean with these people who felt real and made me laugh and ache and WANT things for them. I cannot understate how brilliant it is. Do yourself a favour. Cancel all your plans, and read it. It brought the love back into my reading life, and I suspect it”ll have the power to bring love back into readers” normal lives, too, such is the power of a living,
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