Book Review: The Wedding Girl: Madeleine Wickham, Katherine Kellgren: Books
Book Review: The Wedding Girl: Madeleine Wickham, Katherine Kellgren: Books
Well observerved, well told.,
By Lynda Finn “New Zealand author” (New Zealand) -
This review is from: Wedding Girl (Paperback)
There can be few people whose spines do not prickle with apprehension at the moment the preacher asks: ‘Does anyone know any just cause why these two should not be joined together in holy matrimony….?’Our heroine is about to be the centre of a society wedding which will hit every front page in the land. She’s marrying the son of one of the world’s richest men and her mother, a social-climber extraordinaire, is fussing and list-making 24 hours a day. Everything is set, guests are being helicoptered in, the organist is flying from Geneva, ice swans are being sculpted…..there is just one small problem. Ten years before the bride married a gay friend for immigration purposes, and never actually got a divorce! When the photographer recognises her, she is thrown into a panic and tries, in secret to “put matters right”. She has less than 4 days to find and divorce a man she hasn’t seen in a decade.Madeleine Wickham knows people so well and draws them beautifully. The set-aside father, bemused by his wife’s tireless efficient anxiety, the dizzy bride who somehow thought that if she didn’t admit to the previous wedding it would go away, the career-girl sister who is always so in control of her life (or is she?).You know people like this - and if you don’t - the author brings them to life on the page so vividly that when you reach the last page you have the feeling you are saying goodbye to old friends.Intertwined in this desperate dash to save face, is a sadder story of how it is still not always possible to be proud of being gay, or to accept who you really are.
To Keep Or Not to Keep A Secret? That is the Question…,
By dessert -
This review is from: Wedding Girl (Paperback)
If you don’t know, Madeleine Wickham is the real name for Sophie Kinsella (pen name). Yeap, the one who wrote the highly successful Shopaholic series. Under her real name of Madeleine Wickham, she wrote several books which have more substance than the frothy ones under Sophie Kinsella. That’s why she used a pen name to keep her styles of writing apart.
The Wedding Girl is one such book with much meaty substance. She must have germinated her ideas for “Can you Keep A Secret?” which she wrote later under Sophie Kinsella from this earlier book, The Wedding Girl.
Are secrets better left unearthed or are they better off exposed to those that concern you? How would it affect relationships that have formed preconceived set values and change the dynamics? Will it be the same? That is the recurring fear harboured by Milly Havill who got married for a frivolous reason 10 years ago and now has to un-do that marriage in order to marry the person she truly loves.
Familiarity breeds contempt within the family. This is the ongoing theme in the book, you think you know someone too well and you begin to perform selective memory. You only bring up characteristics that you dislike about them which becomes all too consuming for you and bury their good points fathoms deep. That is until someone from outside your immediate family brings to you a new perspective on their characters.
The author deftly handles the multitude of secrets harboured by several characters. The secrets harboured here are definitely more grounded in reality than those in “Can You Keep A Secret?”.
Read it or you will miss out on a much earlier Sophie Kinsella very sophisticated story telling skills!!!
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