The Wishing Garden [Paperback]

Christy Yorke (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553580361
• ISBN-13: 978-0553580365
• ASIN: B001QI3R82
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating tale of love, life and hope...., September 3, 2001

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Marion "[e-mail]" (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wishing Garden (Mass Market Paperback)

I stumbled upon Ms. Yorke's first book, "Magic Spells", in the library and picked it up merely because a blurb on the cover compared her writing to Alice Hoffman's. Well, Ms. Yorke has got Hoffman beat by a country mile! Her writing is fresh, passionate, sensitive and poignant. I enjoyed every page of this story, which is ultimately about mothers and daughters, and read it again when I got to the end, that's how good the story was. I'm looking forward to her next book with great anticipation.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful story about loyalty and love., August 1, 2000

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This review is from: The Wishing Garden (Mass Market Paperback)

This was an incredibly beautiful book, with sentences and sometimes whole passages that took my breath away. Christy Yorke has told a story about the loyalty we all feel toward our family, even when we don't want to. I loved the weaving of the tarot cards throughout the book, and the hint of the supernatural in the readings. A great book if you like beautiful writing and an emotional plot.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm having to leave out a lot!, March 14, 2003

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Detra Fitch (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wishing Garden (Mass Market Paperback)

Savannah Dawson worked in an advertising agency and had a rebellious fifteen, going-on-thirty, year old daughter named Emma. Savannah also told fortunes. It was a gift she had always possessed. So was her optimistic outlook on life. If an awful card turned up on a customer, like the card that predicts a loss, then Savannah would smile and tell the customer that she would probably only the ten extra pounds she had been exercising to get rid of in the first place. But when the cards showed Savannah bad news, she just knew it really was bad news. Her father was dying. So off she went to Arizona to be with him and a mother who hated her!

Emma saw the auras of people, but did not believe in magic and such like her mother did. She thought her mother was a dreamer and needed to wake up to reality. Emma could see her grandfather's dark aura, knew he did not have long, and therefore did not want to get to know him. She did not want to care for someone who was about to die, no matter how lovable he was. He was too much like Savannah.

Doug Dawson knew he was dying. He was in a hurry to finish his perfect garden before it happened though. He hired Jake Grey to build the perfect bench for it. Jake was thought of (by many) as a crazy man with even crazier dogs. Even Jake believed it! But one thing drove him even crazier, the thought of Savannah.

*** There is SO much that I am not telling. I got lost, not only in the lives of Savannah and Jake, but also in the lives of Emma and Eli, and Doug and Maggie. Then all of them must interchange to help each other pull through and learn hard lessons.

Author, Christy Yorke, had me shaking my head at Savannah's outlook on life, then at Emma's acting out for attention. I then found myself hopeful for Savannah, pulling for Jake, and weeping at the most tender of scenes. I cannot tell you what a marvel I believe this author to be! Highly recommended reading!