The Wedding Girl
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4.2 • 148 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he could stay in England, she didn't hesitate. To make it seem real she dressed up in wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs.
Now, ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Engaged to Simon - who is good-looking, wealthy and adores her - she is about to have the biggest and most elaborate wedding imaginable, all masterminded by her mother. Nobody knows about her first marriage, so it's almost as though it never happened - isn't it?
But with only four days to go, it looks as though Milly's past is going to catch up with her. Can she sort things out before her fairytale wedding collapses around her? How can she tell Simon? And worse still, how can she tell her mother ...?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The usually reliable Wickham (Shopaholic series author Sophie Kinsella's alter ego) falters with this overplotted and heavy-handed smorgasbord of weddings and family shenanigans. Upon meeting wedding photographer Alexander Gilbert, Milly Havill realizes that he had photographed her when she first married 10 years earlier. Since that wedding was done as a favor to help keep Allan Kepinski, the American half of a gay couple, in England, Milly never told anyone about it, including her now-fianc , Simon Pinnacle. The thought of Alexander revealing her past sends Milly into a panic. But that's just the beginning: Simon is bent on bettering his multimillionaire father in business and in marriage; Milly's bitter father, James, seems to appreciate Milly's independent older sister, Isobel, more than Milly; Isobel gets pregnant and is certain the father would not want a baby; and Rupert, the other half of the couple Milly had helped out, is now a born-again Christian. Unfortunately, the characters' struggles with identity, abortion and homosexuality are filtered through strained prose and too-obvious setups. A lighter touch and a tighter story would have helped.
Customer Reviews
Predictable
Very well written, descriptive so much so that you really get caught up in the story. The only negative thing I would say is I found the 'twists' very predictable; I guessed them as soon as there was a hint. All in all a good read
The Wedding Girl
A brilliant book! I read it over a weekend, couldn't put it down. If you want a feel-good book that keeps you turning the pages, this one is great. I'm a massive fan of the Shopaholic books and was intrigued about how different the Madeleine Wickham books would be, I wasn't disappointed. It's written completely differently but just as good and I will definitely be reading the others written by her.
The Wedding Girl
An absorbing read; the story line was different, tackling some difficult issues with underlying humour. It didn't follow the expected all the time and the ending wasn't sickly-sweet. Interesting and worthy of recommendation. K. Price, Essex.