Sixteen-year-old Maggie Dawes is sent from her Seattle home to live with her aunt on an island off the coast of North Carolina in 1996. No malls, movie theaters, or many people her age. However, she is not there to socialize. Bryce Trickett is hired to tutor her while she finishes the school year. He changes her life. In 2019, Maggie is a successful photographer facing serious health issues. She decides to share her story of what happened during her time on the island with a special young man.
Eloquently told, every word of this beautiful story is poignant. The setting and the characters are so vividly brought to life that readers are drawn into the story. Unexpected relationships are developed and difficult decisions are made. Their impact and Maggie's memories last a lifetime.
Beautifully told and filled with heartfelt emotions, THE WISH by Nicholas Sparks is well worth reading. Highly recommended.
From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever.
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 met Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce showed her how much there was to love about the wind-swept beach town--and introduced her to photography, a passion that would 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.
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