“She envied them, these strangers she would never meet.”

The Book Fairies are already getting festive! We are sharing paperback copies of The Wish by Nicholas Sparks today – will you be lucky enough to find this Christmas read from one of the world’s most beloved storytellers?

About the book:

1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town—and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life.

By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.

As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

Not lucky enough to find one today?

This wonderful book is now available in bookshops all around the UK! If you don’t have a chance to visit your local shop, you can still support them if you order a copy of The Wish from Bookshop.org 🙂

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