Once Upon a Wedding
 Kathleen Eagle
 (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
 2002 William Morrow/HarperCollins
  ISBN: 0066214726


What do you do when your daughter tells you the big news?

If you're Camille Delonga, you fight the urge to go lie down for a year or so...& then you do what any self-respecting mother of the bride would -- you march right out & by a sky-high stack of bridal magazines.

After all, aren't weddings a time for unbelievable joy? A few tears? & what about those huge bills & headaches?

Camille Delonga, just shy of the Big 50, has been divorced for quite a while -- not that she ever stopped loving her ex, it's just that they couldn't see eye-to-eye about anything, even if, when they looked into each other's eyes, the world faded away as they melted together.

Things are different, now. They've been apart for years, they've matured. Their daughter is all grown up. Now she is exactly the same age as Camille & Creed were when they fell in love & married...& love is blooming everywhere, even in Creed's reluctant heart & Camille's rebellious mind.

Oh boy! This is my first foray into Kathleen Eagle's world! My rough-hewn self wanted to categorize Once Upon a Wedding as a fantasy...except, this author does have a way with words, & women will drool over them.

Articulate women well versed in relationships; unafraid to murmur awful things to each other, & make up afterwards.

Once Upon a Wedding is a womanly read, rich with textures, scents, families scenes, rueful memories & second chances at happiness, at getting it right. Will they take the plunge?

Kathleen Eagle's writing craft is funny, feisty, insightful & just plain easy reading.

More from Kathleen Eagle: Fire and Rain; The Last Good Man; The Last True Cowboy; Night Remembers; Reason to Believe; Sunrise Song; This Time Forever; What the Heart Knows; You Never Can Tell.
(07/28/02)

Rebecca