The author details Gregory's difficulty in determining whether his love for Lucy is real, or if it is simply an infatuation such as he felt for Hermione. Believing that Gregory is more sincere in his attempts to gain Hermione's favor than her other suitors, Lucy agrees to help him win Hermione's heart.ĭuring the course of the house party, Lucy and Gregory become friends and then develop romantic feelings for each other. After he makes his attraction known, Hermione's best friend, the pretty-but-not-quite-as-attractive Lady Lucinda "Lucy" Abernathy informs him that Hermione is already in love, but with someone unsuitable - her father's secretary. After catching a glimpse of the "breathtakingly perfect curve of her neck" at a house party, Gregory falls immediately in love with the beautiful and extremely sought-after Hermione Watson. The hero of the novel is Gregory Bridgerton, the youngest male and last unmarried sibling in the Bridgerton family. Some of the heroine's slightly obsessive-compulsive tendencies were taken directly from traits of Quinn and her husband. Quinn noted that the title was derived from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
It won the 2007 RITA Award for Best Long Historical Romance, and reached #5 in the New York Times Bestseller List and # 4 in the USA Today bestseller list. It is the eighth and final novel of Quinn's Bridgerton series set in Regency England and tells the story of Gregory, the youngest male Bridgerton sibling. On the Way to the Wedding is a 2006 historical romance written by Julia Quinn, published by Avon.
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