In the StoryThe Guest List
Three guests remember a different groom. By dawn, one of them is dead. In the Hebrides, a wedding gathers families, friends, and deeply personal versions of happiness. When incompatible memories join the celebration, the differences no longer concern only what people know about the couple. They concern the very man about to make his vows.
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Dinner began seventeen minutes late. Eilidh knew because she checked the time when the first course arrived, then resented herself for checking. She shared a table with Niall Fraser, Mairi’s former partner, now a general practitioner in Stornoway; Lena Mercer, Calum’s cousin, who worked in publishing in London; Theo Grant, Mairi’s cousin, a documentary filmmaker; and two aunts who had decided before the appetizer that the salmon would be overcooked.Read the excerpt ↗