The Wedding People

By Alison Espach

Book Overview

The runaway New York Times bestseller
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and a #1 Indie Next Pick
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time, Chicago Tribune Biblioracle, HuffPost, US Magazine, Elle, Real Simple, and Glamour

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250899575
• ISBN13: 9781250899576
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A story with telling

I LOVE this book. I'm halfway through and came online to hopefully find similar ones. As a woman in his late 30s, this book makes me feel really good and hopeful. It's a book that makes me smile, and the differences between the characters is also really beautiful.

Phenomenal storytelling!

I truly loved this story and Phoebe. I cried at times, I laughed and when I reached the end, I immediately wanted to re-read it.