Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life’s not what she’d expected she’s childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle’s Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there’s a feeling of emptiness.
On Valentine’s Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate…what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of twenty wishes, things they always wanted to do but never did.
Anne Marie’s list starts with: Find one good thing about life. It includes learning to knit, doing good for someone else, falling in love again. She begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It’s a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended. It also becomes far more important than she ever imagined.
As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty wishes, they both learn that wishes can come true but not necessarily in the way you expect.
Hosted at Lani's house in September 2010.
Lani picked this book because she was intrigued by the idea of writing down wishes. We have decided to each write our own list of 20 Wishes. We will share these with each other at the anniversary book club slumber party get away tentatively planned for March 2011. Gina has the hookup with a great rate at a local hotel!
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