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Wishes (Paperback)

by Jude Deveraux (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (4 Nov 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099900505
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099900504
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 417,898 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An off-beat historical romance with a time-travel twist. Horrified, when she dies, to find herself not in heaven but in an all-female limbo called The Kitchen, Berni switches her attention to a young woman living in Colorado at the turn of the century who is both unappreciated and unlucky in love.

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5.0 out of 5 stars WISHES, 9 Jun 2002
By cinders64@aol.com (GREAT BRITAIN) - See all my reviews
Marvelous. This is a must for your jude Deveraux collection. You will laugh so hard it will make you cry. Bernie is a wonderful character, hard and brash one minute, soft and soppy the next. I loved this book and still enjoy reading it WELL DONE JUDE. "BUY!!! "BUY!!! "BUY!!!.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Warming mixture of old America, 1980s America and magic., 3 Sep 2007
By marzipanthecat "marzipanthecat" (Princetown, Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
This is the first book I have ever read by Jude Deveraux (I gather that she has quite a following - I'm new to it!). It's a heartily enjoyable fantasy that I think may be continuing with some of the charcters that have been stars of previous novels, but that's ok, this novel stands by itself just fine, you don't need to read the others to enjoy and understand this one.

It all starts with Berni, a remarkably well-preserved woman in her 50s (thanks to surgery and hard dieting), who dies. But she doesn't end up in Heaven. Or in Hell. She goes to The Kitchen, a sort of Purgatory for woman, and she can only leave if she manages to change things on Earth for the better (yup, usual sort of thing, do it correctly and advance to Heaven, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, all that).

So her assignment is Nellie, a woman in 1890s America, and she must end up happy. Happy in this context means geting a nice man as her husband. Cue all the usual romantic disasters, plus a selfish spoilt younger sister and a father who doesn't care. Berni has her work cut out here, and she doesn't even try very hard, so the usual three magic wishes and then the magical-weight-loss programme don't bring success. Oh Noes! I'm not going to tell you how it ends, and what other shenanigans take place - that will just spoil the book for you.

The characters are very believable - Berni is a parody of the Older Ladies Who lunch (but don't actually eat much) - a stereotype that I think is just as true today as it was in the 1980s (when this book was written and initially starts in). Nellie is a nice young lady with low self esteem and also a binge eater, and rather than being annoyed by her I actually felt sorry for her (so yes, well written there - it could have been too easy to make her irritating rather than deserving of sympathy). Terel (Nellie's younger sister) is an out-an-out horror, and it's nice to see her get a suitably appropriate happy-ever-after of her own. And of course there is the handsome man come to sweep Nellie off her feet and away from all this, if they ever work it out!

A really lovely cheering read. I'd like it if this were the first in a series of Berni novels!
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