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The New York Times number one bestselling author Nicholas Sparks is back with his most moving and uplifting love story yet - what are you wishing for this Christmas?If you had one wish...Maggie hasn't told this story in years. More than two decades ago, she fell in love. She was sixteen and far from home, waiting to give her baby up for adoption. Bryce showed Maggie how to take photographs and he didn't judge her for the way her belly swelled under her jumper. They had the perfect first kiss. Theirs was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of love.Now, as Maggie sits by the Christmas tree in her gallery telling her story, surrounded by the photographs that made her famous - the photographs Bryce never saw - her new gallery assistant asks her a question. If she had one wish, what would she wish for this Christmas?Maggie always thought she knew the answer to that question. But before she can say 'I'd go back to that winter with Bryce', she stops herself. It is all she has ever wanted but suddenly here, on this dark night under the twinkling stars, there is something else she wants. She wants to find her baby.... what would you wish for?A 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."The Wish is a novel which evokes a variety of emotions through the sad, happy and fun moments that are portrayed. Nicholas Sparks skilfully interweaves two storylines by having the main character, Maggie Daws, retell the story of a Christmas 20 years earlier to her gallery assistant, as they spend Christmas 2019 together. He very cleverly brings the two storylines together at the end in a most unexpected way." Heather, Dymocks Albury'This one won't leave a dry eye' Daily Mirror'A fiercely romantic and touching tale' Heat'An A-grade romantic read' OK!'Pulls at the heartstrings' Sunday Times'An absorbing page-turner' Daily Mail