Tessa Dannall is excited and happy when her daughter, Nia, arrives at their family's tropical beach resort to get married.
Tessa is also trying to forget the last time she went to a wedding on this beach and how that day changed her life for ever.
But as the big day draws near, Tessa realises she must face the deadly ghosts from her past - or they may ruin her daughter's future...
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[Don't, Drew, please don't', I shouted as he ripped off his tie and jacket while running across the beach]***
(Arrow, 1 February 2018, 112 pages, paperback, # popsugarreadingchallenge 2019, a book that includes a wedding, bought from @AmazonUK)
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Koomson is one of my favourite writers. So I had high expectations for this short novella. I really enjoyed The Beach Wedding. It's not quite what I was expecting when I started to read it. I thought this would be a love story but it turned out to be much darker than I was expecting. Tessa is a great character. I felt for her, wanting her daughter's wedding to be perfect but struggling with the painful memories of the love she lost more than twenty years before. The Beach Wedding is well written and compelling. The book loses one star because some events were a bit too far-fetched for my liking.