The Wish

If you had one wish, what would you wish for?\r\n \r\n From the New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook, The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever.\r\n\r\n1996 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 Carolinas 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.\r\n\r\n 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.\r\n\r\n 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.\r\n\r\nA heart-wrenching story about discovery and loss, The Wish is a reminder that time with those precious to us is the greatest gift of all.\r\n \r\n *\r\n \r\n Praise for Nicholas Sparks:\r\n\r\n This one wont leave a dry eye Daily Mirror\r\n\r\n A fiercely romantic and touching tale Heat\r\n\r\n An A-grade romantic read OK!\r\n\r\n Pulls at the heartstrings Sunday Times\r\n\r\n An absorbing page-turner Daily Mail