Twenty Wishes, Debbie Macomber
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Twenty Wishes
A Blossom Street Book

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2008


Synopsis

Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life’s not what she’d expected—she’s childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle’s Blossom 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 a list of twenty wishes, things they 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 someone else, falling in love again. She begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It’s a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended. It also becomes far more important than she ever imagined.As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty wishes, they both learn that wishes can come true—but not necessarily in the way you expect.

Author Bio

How many people follow the dream they had as a child growing up? American Women's Fiction and Romance novelist, Debbie Macomber did just that. She realized that it was her dream to become a writer from the time she was in fourth grade. She did not act upon that dream (for fear of rejection) until she was 30 years old, and the mother of four children. She submitted many manuscripts, but all were rejected. She attended a romance writers conference, where one of her manuscripts, Heartsong, was selected to be critiqued by an editor from Harlequin Enterprises, Inc. Of course, that editor ripped her work to shreds with his criticism, and recommended she throw it away! Instead, she gathered the $10 fee and submitted the same manuscript to Harlequin's competitor, Silhouette Books. They published the manuscript, and Macomber's illustrious writing career began in earnest.

Debbie Macomber overcame her dyslexia to become one of the most prolific authors of romance novels. She sat in her kitchen, with four children, tapping out her work on an ordinary typewriter. At her peak writing, she was releasing two or three titles per year, with her first hardcover novel being released in 2001.

Most women today are very familiar with Macomber's current works, especially those that have been made into Hallmark Channel movies and series. The Christmas movies.......Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle, Call Me Mrs. Miracle, and Trading Christmas.....have become iconic Christmas features. The Cedar Cove series was also a hit with not only Debbie Macomber fans, but Hallmark fans in general.

Macomber and her husband raised their four children, and now have grandchildren. They still live in Port Orchard, Washington, but now winter in Florida.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Loretta on 2015-09-01 13:59:29

The Blossom Street Series is my favorite series by Debbie Macomber.

AudiobooksNow review by Julie on 2008-07-05 23:36:29

I cannot say enough on how much I enjoyed listenting to this book. I didn't want it to end. It is one I suggest everyone to get to either read or listen to it. Very inspiring. Julie

AudiobooksNow review by Jennifer on 2009-01-07 13:57:20

This book had me turning pages just to keep seeing how each wish was fulfilled unexpectedly.I couldn't guess any of them and that kept me reading late into the night.I'm ready to make my wish list now.

AudiobooksNow review by Loretta on 2010-05-06 13:44:37

I like it when authors mingle the characters from different books, so all the books Debbie Macomber has written about Blossom Street are great to listen to. Thanks Debbie.