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Wish You Well

By: David Baldacci
Narrated by: Kate Burton
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This is the story of Louisa May Cardinal, a precocious 12-year-old girl living in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her acclaimed but sadly underpaid writer father, her compassionate mother, and her timid younger brother, Oz. For Lou, her family's financial struggles are invisible. Instead, she is a daughter who idolizes her father and is in love with the art of storytelling.

Then, in a single, terrifying moment, Lou's life is changed forever, and she and Oz are on a train rolling away from New York and down into the mountains of Virginia. There, Lou's mother will begin a long, slow struggle between life and death. And there, Lou and Oz will be raised by their remarkable great-grandmother, Louisa, Lou's namesake.

Suddenly this young girl finds herself coming of age in a landscape that could not be more foreign to her. On her great-grandmother's farm, on the land her father loved and wrote about, Lou finds her first true friend; learns lessons in loyalty, tragedy, and redemption; and experiences adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches on their new home, Lou and her brother are caught up in another struggle - a struggle for justice and survival that will be played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom.

©2000 by Columbus Rose, Ltd., All Rights Reserved (P)2000 Time Warner AudioBooks, a Division of Time Warner Trade Publishing Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Mystery Thriller & Suspense Exciting New York Virginia

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"Baldacci triumphs with his best novel yet, an utterly captivating drama [which] offers...bone-deep emotional truth�" (Publishers Weekly)
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This book was a joy o listen too. It weaves threw the life of two children and the proves the strength and devotion of Americans to their land and their family. It’s a must listen, warning! You will cry.

Awesome awesome awesome!

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Just a great Book, I really enjoyed it!!

Wish you Well

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It is a very enjoyable well read story.

Thank you for the efforts that went into this production.

Worth the listen!

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liked the atory & narrators.
suprised with the ending.
characters were also very interesting & very diversefied.

good adventure book

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I enjoyed it very much!! Loved the characters and the voice. I like it when the good guy wins!

Enjoyed

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A Great book on growing up in rural America. Baldacci captures your heart on this one. Hopefully it will become a movie someday.

Wish You Well

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I listen to this or pick up my book, when the world gets to be too much. Wish he would write more like this...

Such a heartwarming book.

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I was disappointed with this book. The story is predictable and simplistic. I enjoy stories about growing up in rural areas, but this one doesn't ring true. Check out "A Painted House" by John Grisham, its much better. I am not a fan of Grisham's or Baldacci's regular fare, but enjoy good biographies and auto-biographies.

wish it was better

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Baldacchi usually writes crime novels which is what I thought this was. This story is utterly boring!

Boring

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