Havisham bite awake. Love's hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding-cake. Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon. Don't think it's only the heart that b-b-b-breaks. Havisham "Havisham" is a poem written in 1993 by Carol Ann Duffy. It responds to Charles Dickens' character "Miss Havisham" from his novel "Great Expectations", looking at Havisham's mental and physical state many decades after being left standing at the altar, when the bride-to-be is in her old age. It expresses Havisham's anger at her fiancé and her bitter rage over
The Wedding Day Mystery The Wedding Day Mystery The Wedding Day Mystery is the 136th novel of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1997 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The plot revolves around the happenings taking place at Heights House, a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of Nancy Drew's home town, River Heights. It has been hired by Happily Ever After, Inc., a wedding consulting service at which Nancy's friend Bess Marvin works. Bess's cousin George and Nancy have agreed to assist Bess in the four weddings that are taking place on that weekend. But