Long-Held Secret Revealed!
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This is a short little book, only 156 pages long. But it’s got all the words it needs to paint a picture of the main character, Gail Bains, who has been bottled up emotionally for a lifetime, and who is not one to ever talk things through. And yet, she’s a likeable character, at least if we stick with her through all 156 pages and learn her secrets.
As the book title tells us this novel takes place across three days in June, specifically, the weekend of a wedding. There are also three main characters. We meet Gail first. She is the mother of the bride. Next, there’s Max, the father of the bride and Gail’s ex-husband. And of course, there’s the bride, Debbie. She is the only child of their long-ago marriage.
The book opens on a Friday when Gail, age 61, hears some upsetting news at the school where she is the assistant head-mistress. It is possible that she is losing her job due in part, she is told, to the fact that she lacks people skills.
More bad news awaits her at home when her ex-husband – who lives out of town – turns up at her door with a cat and with the expectation of staying with her for the weekend.
Meanwhile, Debbie is participating in a Day of Beauty with her bridal party and future females-in-law. Gail isn’t exactly sure what a Day of Beauty is, would probably never want to attend such a thing, but feels a bit left out just the same.
Day two is the wedding day, and it has upsets too. Like Max needs to shop for a suit since he didn’t bring anything appropriate to wear. And then at the wedding, how is it possible that an old flame of Gail’s is the best man? And after the wedding, how is it possible that Gail and Max leave without getting to say goodbye to their daughter?
Through it all, Gail is indeed a person without people skills! Apparently, she always has been – her mother-in-law once gave her a book called, Manners for the Mystified. Or perhaps she’s just a prickly person for whatever reason. I truly would have disliked her except that I can be a prickly person too, and so I identified with her instead.
Thus, I was glad when the book allowed her to soften a bit on the third day, the day after the wedding. The softening started when Gail finally got around to telling Debbie her decades-old secret. This lets Gail explore the past too. And to figure a few things out – like why she is so prickly.
All and all, this made for a very satisfying ending. And a very satisfying book.
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