Author:Sophie Kinsella
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 ...?
Gutsy prose and an excellent ear for social comedy
—— IndependentRoth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick... An awesome performance
—— New RepublicRoth is one of a handful of living American novelists who can be called great
—— Washington PostRoth is better than he's ever been before... The prose is electric
—— AtlanticA magnificent novel of ideas, a disquisition on the fallout of the death of ideology
—— ObserverRoth explores our expedients and tragedies with a masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit...a gripping novel
—— New York Times Book ReviewRoth remains as edgy, as furious, as funny, and as dangerous as he was forty years ago
—— New York Review of BooksI Married a Communist proves that, following the success of Sabbath's Theater and American Pastoral, he remains on extraordinary form... Wonderful storytelling and characterisation
—— Guardian, Books of the YearThe McCarthy era has faded, eerily, into nostalgia, just as Capitol Hill produces its own 90s version of witch-hunt and communal obsession with enemies of the state, and perversions of justice perpetrated in democracy's name. Roth avoids nostalgia by making his narrator an active, if unwitting participant in the original drama, caught up in political currents and counter-currents he did not comprehend at the time
—— Lisa JardineRoth’s conflicted, many-layered characters give this work memorable force
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