The Wish is the latest book by Nicholas Sparks published in September 2021.
Synopsis
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Maggie Sparks grew up to be a well-known travel photographer who also helped run a successful art gallery in New York City. But her life might have taken a different track if she had not been sent away at age sixteen to live with an aunt in Ocracoke, a remote village on an island on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
At first Maggie hated the remote island and missed her friends and family in Seattle. Then she met one of the few teenagers on the island. Bryce shows her how much there is to love about this isolated beach town. He also introduces her to photography, which eventually defines the rest of her life – as does Bryce.
Maggie spent many years photographing remote locations around the world and running the gallery in New York where she featured her photographs, along with a fellow artist's work. But as the story begins, she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to understand and cope with a newly sobering medical diagnosis.
As her health worsens, Maggie becomes dependent upon a young man she has hired to help manage the gallery. As Maggie and Mark count down the last days of the Christmas season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas decades earlier on that remote North Carolina island and the love that set her on the course she could not have imagined on that long ago time in 1996.
Summary
Author Nicholas Sparks has had over 100 million copies of his books sold. His stories are often sad, because life always includes some sadness. But Sparks has a special way of capturing what is real in every life, with the sadness being offset by the wonderful joys to be found. The Wish is another wonderfully real story.
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| The Wish by Nicholas Sparks |
“Never forget that love is always stronger than fear.”
~ Nicholas Sparks in The Wish
Related Links:
- The Return by Nicholas Sparks (Book Review by Wednesday Elf)
- Two By Two by Nicholas Sparks (Book Review by Wednesday Elf)
- The Choice by Nicholas Sparks (Movie Review by Sylvestermouse)
- Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks (Book & Movie Review by Sylvestermouse)
Book Review of The Wish written by Wednesday Elf
