The Accidental Bride: A Romantic Comedy

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Macmillan, Jun 8, 2000 - Fiction - 304 pages
With just one month to go before her fairy tale wedding to the third richest man in the second largest city in Ohio, Lily Blair is suddenly beset by doubts. Even though she appears to have it all - a budding career and a five-carat engagement ring from the man of her dreams - she can't decide whether to plunge headfirst into the security of married suburban life, or follow her career dreams solo to New York. And while the zany and loving cast of friends, family, and co-workers keep pushing her towards the aisle, Lily knows that, despite the passion she feels for her fiancé, she alone must come to terms with the biggest decision of her life.

As she locks horns with her mother on nearly every detail, issues like veal medallions vs. chicken wings become battles in an event being staged with all the grandeur and precision of a full-scale military operation. The situation grows funnier and more desperate at every turn as Lily must confront an absurd bridal fair, an unsympathetic psychiatrist, and the local gossip column. Before she loses her sanity, she looks to her heroine, Jane Austen, for inspiration. The result is hilarious, sweet, and smart. For Lily Blair is a real heroine for the 90s and beyond, and The Accidental Bride who will keep surprising you until the end.
 

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Section 1
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Section 2
14
Section 3
20
Section 4
28
Section 5
39
Section 6
48
Section 7
54
Section 8
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Section 20
155
Section 21
166
Section 22
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Section 23
179
Section 24
186
Section 25
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Section 26
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Section 27
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Section 9
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Section 10
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Section 11
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Section 12
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Section 13
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Section 14
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Section 15
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Section 16
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Section 17
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Section 18
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Section 19
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Section 28
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Section 29
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Section 30
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Section 31
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Section 32
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Section 33
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Section 34
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Section 35
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Section 36
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Section 37
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Janice Harayda is an award-winning journalist who spent eleven years as the book editor of a major metropolitan daily newspaper. She has been a staff writer and editor for "Glamour," editorial director of "Boston "magazine, and a contributor to many national magazines and newspapers. A vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle, she lives in New Jersey. "The Accidental Bride" is her first novel.

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