Welcome to the Lemon Grove Bookclub! Join us for a cozy evening of discussions, drinks, snacks and new bookish friends at Backstage Barbershop in the city centre of Edinburgh.
The evening is very informal. We ask a few questions/prompts to get the conversation going and see where it takes us. It doesn't matter if you come along yourself or with a friend, love or hated the book, are confident talking in a group or would rather quietly listen. There's no stress or pressure here. All are welcome!
For August we're reading a fantasy inspired by Polish folklore, The Wedding People, by Alison Espach 🍾...
"A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
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."
Happy reading! 🍋
