On Will's side, Johnno is the best man, and the four ushers are four guys they went to boarding school with, Femi, Angus, Duncan and Peter. (Charlie and Jules are very close, but Charlie and Will don't like each other.) Olivia is Julia's younger (19) half-sister. On the bride's side, Charlie is Jules's best friend. The Folly is owned by Aoife (wedding planner) and her husband Freddy.
The day before, people arrive on the island. (The book cuts back and forth from the present and the events leading up to the present until the two timelines converge at the very end.) When they turn on, there's a scream and reports of a body. The night of the wedding, there's a storm, and the lights cut out. Jules runs a successful online magazine while Will is the host of a survivalist TV show. (Feb.On an island off the coast of West Ireland, Julia "Jules" Keegan and Will Slater are having a wedding at a place called the Folly. Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM Partners. Foley spins her story skillfully through multiple narrators, and if she’s less sure-handed with character, this still makes for a cracklingly suspenseful story for a long winter’s night.
Things start to go seriously wrong with the arrival of a blizzard that will soon cut off the 50,000-acre spread from the outside world. At the Loch Corrin station, they’re met by Doug, the estate’s odd, though hunky, gamekeeper at Loch Corrin, they encounter unexpected additional guests: a pair of strange Icelandic backpackers.
Tensions, sexual and otherwise, first flare during the lengthy, alcohol-lubricated train trip from London on December 30, fanned by charismatic, capricious Miranda-the golden girl most men want to be with and more than a few women long to become. Nine close friends, four of them couples, gather for their extravagant annual New Year’s getaway-this time at Loch Corrin, a remote estate in the Scottish Highlands-a decade after most of them graduated from Oxford. Historical novelist Foley ( The Invitation) makes an auspicious thriller debut.
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