The People We Hate at the Wedding

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Paul and Alice's half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. They couldn't hate it more.

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Lauren Edmondson

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Just like the title suggests, this novel is not all fragrant flower bouquets and three-tiered sweetness.

Thank goodness—we get enough of that on Instagram! But if you’re down for a rowdy romp that is both cynical and tender, do come along with Ginder to London, to a wedding filled with alcohol, sex, and catastrophe.

I love how Ginder crafts such compelling portraits of people who we might otherwise dismiss as shallow or unlikeable.

From Lauren's list on wild family weddings.