Sorry and Congratulations: A Novel

This clever, tender, and very funny novel follows a recently divorced woman forced to confront the story she’s been telling about love—and herself—when she accidentally invites herself to her ex-wife’s wedding.

"Touching, warm, funny and original―with a uniquely lovable protagonist.”  ―Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed

When Jude bumps into her ex-wife Grace, it hasn’t even been 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. 

Luckily, her best friend has a delightful new neighbor, Annie, whom she’s been trying to set Jude up with for months. But even bright-spirited Annie might not be a match for Grace’s wedding, a weekend-long affair held at a children’s summer camp complete with 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, wondering if the woman she once thought she’d spend forever with was someone she 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.