Books/Series
The Wedding People
The Wedding People
The Wedding People

The Wedding People

The Wedding People
The Wedding People
By:
Alison Espach
  • Spice Scale
  • Number of books

    1 Published

  • KU

    ❌

  • Audiobook

    ✅

  • Series Status

    Complete

  • Interconnected

    N/A

  • Overall Rating

    Coming Soon

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.

Jamie’s review

What a delightful BookTok winner! Phoebe checks into a hotel alone without luggage and finds herself amidst a wedding party. I loved being inside Phoebe's brain and getting to know all the characters through her POV. The dialogue is SO good, so funny.

Just an endearing, heartwarming read about grief and loss and complex families/friendships while also making you laugh out loud. Great vacation read.

What a delightful BookTok winner! Phoebe checks into a hotel alone without luggage and finds herself amidst a wedding party. I loved being inside Phoebe's brain and getting to know all the characters through her POV. The dialogue is SO good, so funny.

Just an endearing, heartwarming read about grief and loss and complex families/friendships while also making you laugh out loud. Great vacation read.

Erica’s review

Erica hasn’t read this yet, it’s on her never ending TBR

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    1

    The Wedding People
    The Wedding People

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