Nothing in life comes quickly to Annie Lee. Whether it is patching up her relationship with her mother, changing the colour of the walls in her old house, or even waiting tables in the upscale Colorado ski town where she and her husband, Lucas, live, the simplest of tasks turn into agonising labours for a perfectionist like Annie Lee. So just in case she does become pregnant, and just in case her child does eat the leaf of an ornamental orange tree, Annie Lee decides to get a head start on motherhood and put in a few calls to the poison control hotline. Just in case. The trouble is, once she starts calling she can't stop. Before she knows it, Annie Lee is on first-name basis with those helpful voices on the phone. Her obsession is also starting to turn off Lucas, who eventually finds himself turned on by someone else. Now Annie Lee's predicament is truly unbearable: not only is she still not wth child, but she may soon be without husband. Then in one strange, glimmering moment, everything changes. It starts with the discovery of a diamond as big as a pea.
Add in a little derring do, a little too much to drink, some help from her friends, and an amazing discovery in the walls of her own home. Suddenly she can conceive a whole world of possibilities, including the most far-fetched one of all: that sometimes the quickest way to get your wish is just to wait and see...
- ISBN10 0446526908
- ISBN13 9780446526906
- Publish Date 8 August 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 December 2002
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Warner Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English