On the morning of her wedding, 24-year-old Beth
Shaw drives down the peninsula to the Portsea Hotel. She is uneasy and confused
because she has just learnt something devastating about her fiancé, Jordan,
that completely changes her view of him.
As Beth's old
schoolmates and her relatives arrive for the big day at the bayside idyll, Beth
contemplates her childhood in suburbia. She worshipped the school relay
runners, one of whom was Jordan’s high school sweetheart. Painful
memories of earlier disloyalties and betrayals resurface. Her dreams and
wedding threaten to spin out of control. Will the truth ever be known? And must
she make a fateful decision about more than just her wedding?
Award-winning author Sallie Muirden deftly
evokes the contradictions of human behaviour, and growing up in the 70s and
80s. With its Austenesque feel, Wedding
Puzzle is an astute, entertaining, and often tense comedy of manners, that considers
our choice of partner and the decision to marry as the key moment in our
lives.
