Lord Peter Wimsey an unofficial attaché to the British Foreign Office. Harriet Vane contacts him about a problem she has been asked to investigate in her college at Oxford ("Gaudy Night"). At the end of their investigation, Vane finally accepts Wimsey's proposal of marriage. The couple marry on 8 October 1935, at St Cross Church, Oxford, as depicted in the opening collection of letters and diary entries in "Busman's Honeymoon". The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near Harriet's childhood home, which Peter has bought for her as a wedding present. There they find the body of the previous owner,
Marry Me (novel) is quite simply, Updike's best novel yet. I can't believe that anyone married or divorced could read it without being moved." Marry Me (novel) Marry Me: A Romance is a 1976 novel by American writer John Updike. As in Updike's 1968 "Couples", two married households—in this case, the Conants and the Mathiases—meet and entwine. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel; his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends. The novel was well received by critics. In "The Atlantic", Richard Todd enthusiastically welcomed the book: "'Marry Me,'