The Wishing Hill

A Novel

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$15.00 US
On sale Jul 02, 2013 | 400 Pages | 978-0-451-41594-3
What if everything you knew about your life was wrong?
 
Years ago, Juliet Clark gave up her life in California to follow the man she loved to Mexico and pursue her dream of being an artist. Now her marriage is over, and she’s alone, selling watercolors to tourists on the Puerto Vallarta boardwalk.
 
When her brother asks her to come home to wintery New England and care for their ailing mother, a flamboyant actress with a storied past, Juliet goes reluctantly. She and her self-absorbed mother have always clashed. Plus, nobody back home knows about her divorce—or the fact that she’s pregnant and her ex-husband is not the father.
 
Juliet intends to get her mother back on her feet and return to Mexico fast, but nothing goes as planned. Instead she meets a man who makes her question every choice and reawakens her spirit, even as she is being drawn into a long-running feud between her mother and a reclusive neighbor. Little does she know that these relationships hold the key to shocking secrets about her family and herself that have been hiding in plain sight.…

CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED
© Mariah Gale
Holly Robinson is the author of the novels Folly CoveChance Harbor, Haven Lake, Beach Plum Island, The Wishing Hill, Sleeping Tigers, and a memoir, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter. She is an NPR commentator and a journalist whose work appears in publications such as the Huffington Post, More, Parents, Publishers Weekly, and Redbook. View titles by Holly Robinson

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What if everything you knew about your life was wrong?
 
Years ago, Juliet Clark gave up her life in California to follow the man she loved to Mexico and pursue her dream of being an artist. Now her marriage is over, and she’s alone, selling watercolors to tourists on the Puerto Vallarta boardwalk.
 
When her brother asks her to come home to wintery New England and care for their ailing mother, a flamboyant actress with a storied past, Juliet goes reluctantly. She and her self-absorbed mother have always clashed. Plus, nobody back home knows about her divorce—or the fact that she’s pregnant and her ex-husband is not the father.
 
Juliet intends to get her mother back on her feet and return to Mexico fast, but nothing goes as planned. Instead she meets a man who makes her question every choice and reawakens her spirit, even as she is being drawn into a long-running feud between her mother and a reclusive neighbor. Little does she know that these relationships hold the key to shocking secrets about her family and herself that have been hiding in plain sight.…

CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

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© Mariah Gale
Holly Robinson is the author of the novels Folly CoveChance Harbor, Haven Lake, Beach Plum Island, The Wishing Hill, Sleeping Tigers, and a memoir, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter. She is an NPR commentator and a journalist whose work appears in publications such as the Huffington Post, More, Parents, Publishers Weekly, and Redbook. View titles by Holly Robinson

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