Point of View

This novel is told mostly through the point of view of five different first-person narrators. These are Aoife, Hannah, Jules, Olivia, and Johnno. Will joins these narrators for three sections late in the novel. There are also sections of the novel interspersed among the first-person narration that is narrated by a third-person narrator. These sections, entitled “Now, The Wedding Night,” begin at the point that the lights go out and the waitress enters the tent to say that she has found a body. The third-person narrator is ideal for these sections because if they had been told from a first-person narrator, it would have given the reader a clue as to who was the killer and who had been killed.

For the remainder of the novel, the first-person point of view is ideal. These first-person narrations connect and interplay to give each person’s unique...