My Friend’s Best Wedding (Dutton, June 2027) follows a woman who realizes she’s in love with her childhood best friend just as she’s helping him to plan his last-minute wedding to her high school bully. As feelings emerge, a decision is made: She’s going to stop this wedding.

Gina Hamadey is the author of My Friend’s Best Wedding (Dutton, June 2027), her fiction debut, and I Want to Thank You (TarcherPerigee, 2021), in which she chronicled her year writing 365 thank you notes to friends, mentors, Brooklyn neighbors, and her husband and two sons. She is the former travel editor of Food & Wine and Rachael Ray Every Day, and has written for The New York Times, Real Simple, and Elle.

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"Absolutely delicious. What a gorgeous ode to one of my favorite 90s romcoms, My Best Friend’s Wedding. I've thought about alternative endings to the movie for years and Gina Hamadey delivers with both creativity and verve. Romantic, charming, laugh-out-loud funny. I inhaled it in one night and then passed it on to my own best friend."

— Jo Piazza, national bestselling author of The Parisian Heist
“Was Gina Hamadey put on earth purely to delight readers with this deeply romantic, disarmingly realistic, and unputdownable screwball comedy? I loved this novel and can't stop thinking about it.”

— Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
“If you've ever wished My Best Friend’s Wedding had ended differently, this is the book for you! In My Friend’s Best Wedding, Gina Hamadey takes a familiar premise and makes it entirely her own. Tender, romantic, and brimming with heart, this irresistible debut delivers plenty of longing, hope, and a deeply satisfying happily-ever-after."

— Devon Daniels, author of Star-Crossed Summer
"Hamadey's debut is a hilarious tribute to the golden era of romcoms, with a cast of messy but loveable characters you can't help but root for. And if the movie-within-the-book ever gets made, I'll be first in line for a ticket!"

— Francesca Cocchi, USA Today bestselling author of Have a Great Summer
"The perfect book for anyone who loved the messy, unpredictable fun of My Best Friend’s Wedding…but still hoped for a happy ending. Gina Hamadey delivers a clever and exhilarating rom-com that manages to pay homage to a classic while being realistic, sweet, and completely captivating. It's a total delight."

— Kerry Winfrey, author of Waiting for Tom Hanks