Her next list is full of practical tasks, but these (as she says) are boring, boring boring! She continues to think up ideas and then strikes them out for various reasons. find one good thing about life, then crosses is it out as not being specific enough. Suddenly the friends have the idea of recording their heartfelt wishes creating a list of twenty things that they always secretly wanted to do but were never brave enough to see through.Īnne Marie starts tentatively on her list. Just because they lost their husbands didn’t have to be the end of their lives. Anne Marie provides some champagne and a barefoot bubble wrap walk! This soon loosened the women up and they start to laugh and talk about what they want to do in the future.

As they are all unattached they decide to celebrate/commiserate the day together. Robert, her husband did not want any children and when he died suddenly she found herself alone, without anyone.Īnne Marie decides to invite three other recent widows (Elise, Lillie and her daughter Barbie) to a special book group on Valentine’s Day the holiday that all singles dread. But this is not how things have worked out. She imagined that she would have a husband and children to love. However, Anne Marie also has a feeling of emptiness in her life.

Thirty eight year old Anne Marie Roche has a successful bookstore on Blossom Street in Seattle. In Twenty Wishes, by Debbie Macomber, a group of four widows contemplate their deepest desires and set about changing their destinies.

Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber