And based on the revelations in this carefully plotted mystery novel, that’s enough of a shame. But they do have to spend the rest of their lives with themselves. The characters in The Guest List don’t have to spend the rest of their lives on that tiny island off the coast of Ireland, barely inhabitable. After the wedding, it sinks in that she’s really going to have to spend the rest of her life with these stodgy people and their stuffy rules, so old that dust would come up if you blew on ’em. It’s almost like they’re preparing me for what my life could be like this winter as the temperature drops lower and lower and I can’t leave (Lucy Foley let me know if you need inspo for a new horror novel).Ĭurrently I’m reading Tina Brown’s brilliant biography of Princess Diana, called The Diana Chronicles. I guess you could call them “claustrophobic books,” though they needn’t take place in elevators. I like seeing what happens to people, how their personalities change, when forces are closing in on them.

I bet it’s no surprise that books like this are particularly fascinating to me right now (cough: quarantine). Books where characters are dealing with the idea that there is no way out, no way off this ride. TV/movie character who would like it: The cast of Lost, who would say, This is nothing!īooks about entrapment. Release Date: 2020 Reese’s Book Club editionĭescribe it in a sentence: A bunch of privileged guests with money and secrets gather on a gloomy Irish island for a wedding. Author: Lucy Foley, who has the kind of name I wish I had.

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