Audio Book Description:
Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life`s not what she`d expected-she`schildless, a recent widow, alone. Sheowns a successful bookstore on Seattle`sBlossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there`s a feeling of emptiness. On Valentine`s Day,Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate...what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin alist of twenty wishes, thingsthey always wanted to do but never did. Anne Marie`s list starts with: Find one good thing about life. It includes learning to knit, doing good for someoneelse, falling in love again. She begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at alocal school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen entersher life. It`s a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended.It also becomes far more important than she everimagined. As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty wishes, they both learnthat wishes can come true-but not neccessarily inthe way you expect.