The Wedding People

'UTTERLY CHARMING' PANDORA SYKES

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! -- Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show's #ReadwithJenna
The the best read of the year so far The Times
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! Red
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 -- Pandora Sykes
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 -- Jenny Jackson
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 -- Catherine Newman
I gulped down The Wedding People - I LOVED it! It's such a blast, so much fun to read and so funny, but also full of brilliant insights and heart-wrenching in parts - my favourite kind of book. A joyful reading experience -- Emily Itami
The Wedding People is my very favourite kind of novel - hilarious and witty with enormous heart and characters I fell in love with. I was delighted to be at this wedding, in the middle of the drama and gossip, watching the entanglements of friendships old and new. I haven't stopped talking about this book since I finished it, and I won't stop until I've made everyone I know read it . . . so read it! Now! You can thank me later -- Jennifer Close
Espach is an immensely talented writer, and her prose unfolds with a devastating lightness of touch -- Emily St. John Mandel
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, breathing, beautiful story like this -- Claire Daverley
The Wedding People is the kind of book that stays with you long after you have read it, adding truths to your life that stay forever in your heart. It's a dark comedy with love bursting through every page. I wanted to stop and take in the magnificence of this book, and yet was desperate to know what happened. Alison Espach has captured her characters with such grace and mastery that they feel like they have been part of your life forever and you're sad to see them leave. The Wedding People touches on many of life's hardships but is never dreary, handling tough subjects with both grace and humour . . . The Wedding People is a masterpieceand I will eagerly wait for Alison Espach's next book -- Catherine Yardley
Brilliant . . . I don't think I've ever read anything so hilarious and profound and moving; I can't remember the last time I was so invested in a love story. While there are shades of Fleabag, Nora Ephron and Monica Heisey, the book sits in a unique space where the humour never feels like a deflection from the novel's emotional heart. I adored it and will be recommending it to everyone I know -- Caroline Lea
A fantastic modern romance, smart, funny and humane, with beautifully-rendered characters . . . An intelligent, uplifting, wholly enjoyable read -- Marie Phillips
Professor Phoebe Stone is going to steal the summer of 2024! Excellent . . . a perfect mix of hilarious, poignant and romantic -- Ania Bas
Hilarious, moving and utterly brilliant -- Natasha Poliszczuk
The perfect holiday novel. Darkly funny, romantic, escapist- I was completely absorbed in its pages -- Chloe Timms
A novel that's by turn sad, wise and mordantly funny - I loved it Good Housekeeping
A wonderfully entertaining novel Woman & Home
Alison Espach's sparkling social observations and deft prose make for a novel that's sharp, funny and a joy to read Observer

Alison Espach is the author of two previous novels, though The Wedding People is the first to be published in the UK. Her short stories and essays have appeared in a wide range of publications, including McSweeney's and Vogue. She is a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.

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