Book: The Wedding People

The Wedding People: A Novel
Alison Espach
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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.

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This was a quick fun listen. My friend did not go to the pottery workshop the other day, so I put a book on as I worked on my pottery stuff.

The book itself was pretty engaging. I was able to kind of relate to Phoebe, perhaps I'm also feeling a little down?

Though I felt it was a stretch that she would rely on her cat's painkillers, but that also reflects how she wasn't thinking right.

I wonder how the hotel managed to slip in an outside reservation if Delilah had "made sure to book out the hotel" the first time around (but had to go and book out Phoebe's room after she found out Phoebe was not part of the wedding).

I liked that the story did not revolve around Phoebe in that she did out of character things (think Mary Sues kind of thing), so making it a tad more believable. Winter housekeeper sounds like an amazing job too.