A wedding in December

By Anita Shreve

Subjects: Fiction, Weddings, Friendship

Description: At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has reinvented her life following the death of her husband. Harrison, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago, lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Agnes, a teacher at Kidd, longs to tell 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, despite uncertainties about her health. Indeed, it is Bill who passionately wants this wedding and who has brought everyone together for a weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption.