

(Actually, Will stole them.) Next, Johnno strikes up a conversation with Piers, Will's producers. Johnno finds out that he thinks Johnno stole the GSCE papers (UK standardized test) that Will used to cheat on the exam. Afterwards, Johnno talks to Will's father, who was headmaster at their school. That morning of the wedding, a storm is brewing and the other guests arrive. Johnno is kind of a mess compared to the over guys (less successful, not from a wealthy family, etc.), and Jules doesn't understand why Will is friends with him. It was actually Johnno's idea and Johnno was given a screen test for them to host as a duo, but the producers preferred the good-looking and perfect Will as a solo act. (One kid died from it, though.) It's the game Will's show was based on. They also reminisce about Survival, a game they used to play in school where older guys would kidnap one of the younger guys and leave him in the woods to fend for himself for the night. There's more, but Olivia doesn't continue.Īt dinner, there's talk of something that happened during the "stag" (bachelor party) to Charlie, but the guys won't say what. She took him to one of her sister's fancy parties to impress him, but instead got drunk and made a fool out of herself, so he ghosted her. Afterwards, she started dating an older guy (" Steven") she met off an app. Olivia confides in Hannah that she's sad about a recent breakup with her ex-boyfriend Callum. Jules is frustrated about Olivia's unenthusiastic attitude about the wedding. Three weeks ago, Jules found an anonymous note telling her not to marry Will. 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. 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.
