Synopsis
It's Friday the 13th and Diana is an ambitious young appraiser at Sotheby's in New York. She's about to go on a long-awaited holiday, where she knows Finn, her surgeon boyfriend, will propose and the next stage of her carefully planned life will begin.
But it is Friday the 13th of March 2020.
The new virus hits. Finn can't leave the city, and suggests she goes without him. In the Galapagos, unable to get back to her real life, Diana learns about the devastation hitting the world as she hears intermittently from her boyfriend. She's discovering a new side to herself and a new kind of life, when everything changes . . .
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 9781473692534
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
- Weight: 240g
- Languages: English
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A surving covid tale
SYNOPSIS: Diana finds herself, along with her doctor boyfriend, at the start of the covid 19 storm. As New York residents, things around them get bad, rea... READ MORE
Incredible!
I didn’t think I would ever read a novel about Covid-19! This pandemic has become such an integral part of the way we live our lives that I didn’t want to ... READ MORE
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult is a story about a Covid survivor who had to use a ventilator to help her breath and was placed in a coma and who survi... READ MORE
Wonderful read
Jodi Picoult is an auto read author for me, her books are always highly enjoyable reads and Wish You Were Here was no exception.
Set in March 2020, at the... READ MORE
Moving, informative and thought-provoking
Wish You Were Here is the twenty-seventh novel by award-winning, best-selling American author, Jodi Picoult. When she looks back, Diana O’Toole sees that i... READ MORE
A story of hope, resilience and survival
"Sometimes it feels like the whole world is holding its breath. If we don't gasp, soon, we will all pass out."
Wish You Were Here is a beautiful, heartf... READ MORE
Amazing Book!
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult is an amazing book that I will not soon forget. I read this over a week ago, and the story is still stuck in my head, w... READ MORE
Beautiful and captivating
I've always loved Picoult's work as it is exciting and relevent and this book was just that. It depicted very modern events that are all too familiar to ma... READ MORE
A little bit disappointed
I started out reading this book and it took me a while to bond with, this usually doesn't happen with me reading a Jodi Picoult novel, when I finally start... READ MORE
Brilliant
Loved this book. Not what I was expecting.
Beautiful and heartbreaking in equal measures
Beautiful and magical at times, but also uncomfortable and heartbreaking to read. Like all Jodi Picoult novels I came away with questions and thoughts, and... READ MORE
An outstanding Book
It is a book that everyone should read Beautifully written and will be Remembered by myself forever