- Paperback: 409 pages
- Publisher: Mira Books (18 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0778302393
- ISBN-13: 978-0778302391
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 131,963 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Even the most hard-hearted readers will find themselves rooting for the women in this hopeful story while surreptitiously wiping away tears and making their own list of wishes.' --Booklist
'Touching stuff.' --Closer on Wednesdays at Four
'A good read.' --Woman's Way on Wednesday's at Four
'Touching stuff.' --Closer on Wednesdays at Four
'A good read.' --Woman's Way on Wednesday's at Four
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What do you want most in the world? Bookshop owner Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. Her life hasn't turned out as she expected and recently widowed, she's never felt more alone. On Valentine s Day, Anne Marie and a 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. As Anne Marie works her way through her wishes, she learns that dreams can come true - but not necessarily in the way you expect.
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Another wonderfully written book by Debbie Macomber. I spent a whole day in bed reading this book because I couldn't put it down.
The story is lovely with a real feel good factor. The characters are believable characters and I liked them all (which I feel is always a good start). The idea of writing twenty wishes has even inspired me to start my own list.
I would highly recommend this book to everyone.
The story is lovely with a real feel good factor. The characters are believable characters and I liked them all (which I feel is always a good start). The idea of writing twenty wishes has even inspired me to start my own list.
I would highly recommend this book to everyone.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It sounds like I have described a chocolate dessert but that is the way I have chosen to look at this book. It felt like as soon as I picked it up I was picking a bar of favourite chocolate and I knew exactly what I was going to get from the very first bite to the last.
You know what you are getting with this book and it leaves you that warm satisfying fulfilled feeling of having experienced something lovely.
Twenty Wishes is part of Debbie Macomber's The Shop on Blossom Street series, and the first that I have read. Here we meet Anne Marie owner of a bookshop who along with a few neighbours and friends find themselves seeking solace in their widowhood. Instead of feeling and being alone of Valentine's Day they all get together and decide that for them to survive on the future they need to create Twenty Wishes.
Anne Marie finds this the hardest to achieve, but actually something comes to her without her actively looking. This makes her completely take a different outlook on life and she finds herself fulfilled in so many ways she never thought possible. Even her strained relationship with past relatives changes for the better.
Lillie and Barbie, mother and daughter who lost their husbands in the same plane crash both find love again in very different ways with different forces working for them and in Barbie's case, trying to work against. Elsie inspires the other women to go for what they really want and desire. As a character she sort of flits in and out of the story well, with us knowing enough about her and what she is achieving but also at key moments for the others to help them along.
A book which can be absorbed so quickly, that you forget where the time goes but leave you with a lovely feeling afterwards. A kind of calorie free treat to comfort you. I look forward to picking up another of Macomber's books and hopefully getting the same from it.
You know what you are getting with this book and it leaves you that warm satisfying fulfilled feeling of having experienced something lovely.
Twenty Wishes is part of Debbie Macomber's The Shop on Blossom Street series, and the first that I have read. Here we meet Anne Marie owner of a bookshop who along with a few neighbours and friends find themselves seeking solace in their widowhood. Instead of feeling and being alone of Valentine's Day they all get together and decide that for them to survive on the future they need to create Twenty Wishes.
Anne Marie finds this the hardest to achieve, but actually something comes to her without her actively looking. This makes her completely take a different outlook on life and she finds herself fulfilled in so many ways she never thought possible. Even her strained relationship with past relatives changes for the better.
Lillie and Barbie, mother and daughter who lost their husbands in the same plane crash both find love again in very different ways with different forces working for them and in Barbie's case, trying to work against. Elsie inspires the other women to go for what they really want and desire. As a character she sort of flits in and out of the story well, with us knowing enough about her and what she is achieving but also at key moments for the others to help them along.
A book which can be absorbed so quickly, that you forget where the time goes but leave you with a lovely feeling afterwards. A kind of calorie free treat to comfort you. I look forward to picking up another of Macomber's books and hopefully getting the same from it.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I just love Debbie Macomber's books,they are light hearted and easy reads,always with happy endings. Perfect for when time is limited and you are feeling a bit low.
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A lovely story!
I really enjoy Debbie Macombers books and this one was just lovely. Made me think about what my 20 wishes might be! Read more
Published 1 month ago by bookwormkt
A must read
Twenty Wishes is beautifully written and for me my Best Read of the Year. It made me think I should note down some "Wishes" and try to make them come true. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mbwest
twenty whishes
i real enjoy meeting new people and old people from different book in the series they r well wirte by the author can't wait to read next one
Published 3 months ago by donna
Delightful
Obtained when free as the author is new to me, I found this to be beautifully written. Yes its a little predictable but there are enough well developed characters to keep it not... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mrs. G. Close
Twenty Wishes
I loved this book this was given to me by a friend but I lent it to my daughter whom texted me later to say that after reading the first three chapters she was starting to write... Read more
Published 5 months ago by JULES
Great read
A great read and well worth investigating this author. I've now ordered 3 more of Debbie's books and look forward to their arrival.
Published 6 months ago by Swimmer
Great to find a new author!
I love to try new authors and this was the first book i had read by Debbie Macomber. I wasn't disappointed - it was a good story based and i loved the concept of 20 wishes. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Victoria Megginson
Macomber hits the nail again
Continuing with the Blossom Street novels, this is a story from a neighbour to the Yarn Shop, with believable characters and life changing decisions to make, which way would you... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mrs. La Watts
I love this woman's work
Debbie Macomber writes in the sort of style that I enjoy to read. You get to learn about all the main characters so well, and they are all then linked together in such a clever... Read more
Published 15 months ago by cerises
Twenty Wishes
i must admit I have really enjoyed yet another Debbie Macomber book! Great concept and idea and one that is slowly taking root in me! Onto another one now!
Published 15 months ago by W. Macpherson
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