The One with the Engagement Party
‘Heartwarming and humorous, The One with the Engagement Party is Erin Lawless at her best. I can't wait for more!’ – Books with BunnySave the DateFor fans of romantic comedies like Bridesmaids and Four Weddings & a Funeral, and bestselling authors Mhairi McFarlane and David Nicholls, this is a hilarious new romantic comedy series about one bride and her four best friends.Nora Dervan is ready for her Happy Ever After. With her darling Harry waiting at the altar, and all her family and friends around her. She is certain that her special day will not be forgotten/will be one to remember…But with her four bridesmaids hiding more secrets, than bottles of champagne. Will her big day be remembered for all the right reasons?Bea has barely gotten past the fact that her two best friends are dating, and now they’re engaged, whilst cupid’s arrow points in a forbidden direction for Cleo. She is so distracted by her off limits, hot new colleague that she has forgotten Daisy, who has been left dreading the singles table. There’s more romance in the cheesy pick- up lines than Sarah’s own marriage, which hasn’t turned out as she hoped it would be.With her wicked sense of humour and refreshingly honest voice, Erin Lawless brings to the life the romance (and horrors!) of wedding season.
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The One with the Engagement Party
ERIN LAWLESS
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âFunny and Addictive⦠If this is Erin Lawlessâ first book, I canât wait to read her next one!â
Fabulous Magazine (the Sun)
âA lovely, warm read to snuggle up on the sofa withâ
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âDevastatingly brilliantâ¦an absolute triumphâ
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âFirst there was Bridget and Mark; then there was Em and Dex and now there is Nadia and Alexâ¦it is a rare thing to be able to make the love between two fictional characters become so real that you actually champion their love from your very rootsâ
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âFriendships, trust, lies, deceit, love and so much more â a real page-turner for meâ
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âA superb debut about complicated ties, betrayal and lies, and one of my favourite books of the yearâ
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âMind-blowingly good and everyone should read itâ
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âThis book was so incredibly amazingly awesome that I want to shout it from the hilltops and make ALL my friends buy it this instantâ
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For Jacqui, Joanne, Ksenia and Nicola â my beautiful, brilliant bridesmaids,
and for all of my Lawless Hens:
Iâll never forget the amazing weekend when we all met The Juan.
Table of Contents
As I arrived in my mid-twenties, something very strange started to happen â my friends started to get engaged. Seriously? â I thought, staring at the fat, glossy invitations appearing through the post â I swear it was only this time last year you were snogging strangers in clubs, and now Iâm Saving the Date? And I should put how much aside for your Hen Do!?
Ever since then, my weekends â particularly in the summer â have been a veritable nuptial string of engagement parties in pubs, dress fittings in boutiques, hen dos in spas and clubs and, of course, the weddings themselves (I gave as good as I got, of course, when I got married myself in 2014). The narrative of being a wedding guest (or knowing a bridezilla) has been so woven into the lives of my friends and I for so many years (and for so many more years to come, no doubt) that I really wanted to capture some of that in a story.
So here we have: one bride, and four bridesmaids, from proposal to altar.
Interspersed through the books, Iâve collated some real life anecdotes about perfect proposals, disastrous dance floors, suspicious strippers, bad bridesmaids and gorgeous groomsmen. Get in touch on social media and share your stories!
I was surprised to be asked to be a bridesmaid for someone I would have considered more a friend-of-a-friend. I realised really quickly that it wasnât the honour it had first seemed â she had twelve bridesmaids. Then the emails started. Until the wedding was over we were banned from dying or cutting our hair, getting any tattoos or piercings, putting on weight (losing it was apparently fine). The wedding at this time was two years away. We took it as just a bad joke ⦠until one maid cut in a fringe and was promptly fired and replaced with someone from the âbridesmaid benchâ.
Erika, Poole
Please Save the Date
for the wedding of
NORA EILEEN DERVAN
and
HENRY ROBERT CLARKE
New Yearâs Eve
THE MAIDS
Beatrice Milton
Cleo Adkins
Daisy Frankel
Sarah Norris
THE MEN
Cole Norris
Archie Clarke
Elliott Hale
Barlow Osbourne
Sarah was there first, as Nora had expected, armed with a half dozen glossy bridal magazines and good-natured excitement. Bea and Cleo arrived pretty much at the same time, each having to hug Nora five or six times before they could take their seats. Daisy completed the group, having stopped off at the bar en route to the table to order a bottle of something bubbly and expensive.
