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WHITE
Rosie Thomas
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First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann 2000
Copyright © Rosie Thomas 2000
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Source ISBN: 9780007563210
Ebook Edition © December 2020 ISBN: 9780007560530
Version: 2020-11-27
For Graeme and Judith
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
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About the Publisher
So many weddings, Finch Buchanan thought.
Weddings under awnings in summer gardens. Weddings in Toronto or New York, out on the coast, in white-walled Presbyterian churches, in flower-decorated homes or smart hotels. One at a ski lodge up in the Cariboo mountains and another at sunset on a Caribbean beach. Long-planned or recklessly impromptu, wherever or however they happened they all seemed the same and this one was no different. Except more so.
This time it was her dearest friend Finch was watching, standing beside an urn of white lilies and stephanotis, and shape-changing from Suzy Shepherd into Mrs Jeffery Sutton of Medford, Oregon. Suzy was about the last of their group to be married, except for Finch herself.
The bride was wearing an ivory satin Donna Karan suit and the groom had been coaxed into navy-blue Armani. As bridesmaid, Finch was wearing a little suit too, hyacinth-blue, of a cut that made her stand with her ankles together and her hands meekly clasped.
I’m too old to be got up as a fucking bridesmaid, she was thinking.
Suzy and Finch were both thirty-two years old. They had been room-mates in their first year at med school at the University of British Columbia and they had gone all the way through
