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Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2024
Winner, Goodreads Choice Awards, 2024
Long-listed, Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2024
Long-listed, Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2024
“As narrator, the terrific Laser, an actress and puppeteer, only enhances the swoon-worthy quirks and romance.”—Vulture
A Today show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, A Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Winner, and long-listed in many Best of the Year 2024 picks!
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe’s plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.
Customers say
Customers find this novel to be a delightful read with well-developed characters and humor that balances serious topics with moments of hilarity. Moreover, the book contains many life lessons and is emotionally touching, with one customer noting how the balance between melancholy and delight is beautiful. However, the pacing receives mixed reactions, with some finding it engaging while others say it drags on, and the plot twists are also mixed, with some appreciating the many twists and turns while others find it predictable.
