A Wedding in December is the richly nuanced new novel about memory and the healing power of friendship from the bestselling author of Light on Snow.
At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Harrison, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago. Agnes, now a history teacher at Kidd and still single, longs to tell a secret she cannot reveal to others, a secret that would stun them all. Bridget, the mother of a fifteen-year-old-boy, has agreed to marry Bill, an old high-school lover whom she has recently re-met, despite uncertainties about her health and future.
It is Bill who passionately wants this wedding and who has brought everyone together for an astonishing weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption.
At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Harrison, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago. Agnes, now a history teacher at Kidd and still single, longs to tell a secret she cannot reveal to others, a secret that would stun them all. Bridget, the mother of a fifteen-year-old-boy, has agreed to marry Bill, an old high-school lover whom she has recently re-met, despite uncertainties about her health and future.
It is Bill who passionately wants this wedding and who has brought everyone together for an astonishing weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption.