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Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

  It's a shame, but I didn't feel that this one completely hit the mark for me.  It started off in a promising way, and I was totally onboard with Gail Baines as a somewhat dowdy woman in her early sixties who was trying to prepare herself for her only daughter's wedding, but somewhere around the middle of the book, it all seemed to veer off course. School teacher Gail lives alone in a small house that she bought for herself after her divorce.  Her ex husband lives miles away, but he will of course be attending the wedding, and she finds herself getting irritated just remembering how messy he is and how annoying he could be.  At this stage it is easy to picture Gail as she struggles with the idea of making herself presentable for the wedding and doesn't even want to go to the expense of buying something new to wear. As the title suggests, the book covers three days in June, and those three days are the wedding day, the day before and the day after.  Everything t...