Wish You Well: An Emotional but Uplifting Historical Fiction Novel

by David Baldacci

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From bestselling author and master storyteller David Baldacci, Wish You Well is a dramatic and enthralling tale of family unity in the face of adversity.

Tragedy strikes the New York-based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old Oz survive, but the crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma. It would seem their world has been shattered forever until their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae, agrees to raise the children on her Virginia mountain farm.

But before long their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain. Determined to protect her home from the ravages of big business, Louisa Mae refuses to sell, but when the neighbours hear of the potential wealth the company could bring, they begin to turn against her. And now the Cardinal family find themselves ensnared in another battle, to be played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom: a battle for justice, for survival, and for the right to stay together in the only place they know as home.

Filled with both rich humour and desperate poignancy, Wish You Well is a tale of family, faith, humanity and prejudice, set against the magical backdrop of the Virginia high rock.

  • ISBN10 0330419692
  • ISBN13 9780330419697
  • Publish Date 21 November 2003 (first published 1 October 2000)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 November 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Pan Books
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 416
  • Language English