Books I've read in 2010 - The Reluctant Bride

Lucy Mangan writes for The Guardian and I'm a semi-regular reader of her Saturday magazine column. I like her style. She was engaged and writing about getting married in that column about the same time that I got engaged and was preparing for my wedding. In my head I like to think that we got married at around the same time as I'm sure she wrote about getting the Banns read at about the same time we were having our Banns read (though I may have totally made that up as the book implies that they had a special licence so there wouldnt be any reading of Banns).
To the book: It charts the relationship of Lucy and her husband from first meeting through engagement all the way up to the wedding itself. I laughed a lot and I cried a bit. Mangan writes with feeling and as a recent(ish) bride I really identified with the situations she describes. I'm sure there is a lot of exagerration and fictionalisation but this doesn't detract from the story. I already liked her columns so it's not a suprise that I enjoyed the book. In particular I liked that it was set out in months leading up to the wedding and I liked the portrayal of her family as hilarous, frustrating and lovely all at the same time.I stayed up late to finish the book  - the mark of true enjoyment in my view.

* pic from amazon

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