At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he could stay in England, she didn’t hesitate. To make it seem real she dressed up in wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs.
Now, ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Engaged to Simon – who is good-looking, wealthy and adores her – she is about to have the biggest and most elaborate wedding imaginable, all masterminded by her mother. Nobody knows about her first marriage, so it’s almost as though it never happened – isn’t it?
But with only four days to go, it looks as though Milly’s past is going to catch up with her. Can she sort things out before her fairytale wedding collapses around her? How can she tell Simon? And worse still, how can she tell her mother …?
I adore Sophie Kinsella's previous books, in particular The Undomestic Goddess so I was very intrigued to read her writing in a different style as Madeleine Wickham.
Sophie Kinsella has created a novel where the main character is naive but has a good heart and I fell in love with her whimsical nature during the first few chapters where she marries American Alan who needs a UK visa to stay in England with his gay lover.
Then the turmoil comes a decade later when she meets Simon who she wants to marry (for love not a Visa) and her previous marriage comes back to haunt her. The odds are against Milly and every chapter had me routing for a happy outcome. There are lots of twists in the story and plenty of obstacles in Millys path, thrown in with realistic explorations of common stereotypical relationships and just a touch of Sophie Kinsellas witty observations of life.
I'd recommend this book to Sophie Kinsella fans, just don't expect the perfectly rosy conclusions found in her other books, Milly's is a messy tale and not all the strings can be tied in pretty bows.
Love
Lorraine
Lacroix x
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