The prologue shows us a wedding.
The narrator tells us about Stephen Aston, who is going to marry a woman who is younger than her two daughter, Tully and Rachel. Stephen's exwife, Pam, has been invited, and the narrator describes how she stands up and walks to where the wedding is taking place. Then we learn that Pam has Elzheimer's disease. Just after the wedding, Pam stands at the altar and takes a candle holder. The daughter, and the married couple move to the vestry to sign, and there is uproar, and the bride appears bleeding from her head, and we understand that she has been attacked, probably by Pam.
The book moves back in time. A year earlier Stephen and her daughters meet at a restaurant to introduce them to Heather, his girlfriend. Tully is the first one to arrive, and she hates the idea of her father being with a girl who is younger than her and her sister. Tully is married and has two young sons, and she seems to be quite neurotic. Rachel arrives a bit later. She has a bakery business, and she is a very attractive woman, but has not had a relationship in her life. Then during lunch Stephen wants to announce something and orders champagne, and to his daughters' horror he says that he and Heather are getting married. The girls say that they can't marry while their mother is alive, but Stephen says that he has talked to the lawyer and he can divorce Pam, but he will look after her as he has been doing. Pam is now in a nursing home.
The start of the book is really interesting. I wonder what will happen.
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