Sorry and Congratulations: A Novel

For readers of The Wedding People, Good Material, and Really Good, Actually, comes a hilarious and heartbreaking story of a recently divorced woman attending her ex-wife’s wedding, and the discovery of how falling into and out of love could lead to something even greater. 

When Jude bumps into her ex-wife Grace, it’s been not even a year since their divorce. Grace doesn’t just look better than she should, she's also getting married again...in less than two weeks. Jude (who has been handling things fine, thanks for asking) is so flustered that she accidentally invites herself—and a fictional plus-one—to the wedding. Now, not only is Jude obligated to attend the weekend-long affair, which is being held at a children’s summer camp (so not Grace’s style), she must also wrangle up a last-minute date. Thankfully, her best friend has a delightful new neighbor, Annie, that she’s been trying to set Jude up with for months. 

Together, Jude and Annie set off for a weekend full of matching t-shirts, too-small cabins, and watching Grace swoon in the arms of her new bride—the stuff of nightmares. It’s all harder than Jude imagined, and over the course of the weekend, she is forced to confront all the joys and sorrows of the past seven years of her life, wondering if the woman she once thought she’d spend forever with was someone she even really knew at all. Told in alternating timelines between the wedding weekend and the rise and fall of Jude and Grace’s relationship, Sorry and Congratulations is for anyone who ever worried about “winning” or “losing” their breakup, only to realize they’d been playing a different game all along.