A Wish for Winter

De: Viola Shipman

Narrado por: Nancy Peterson

“I love this book—funny, perfect and wonderfully good. A not-to-be-missed delight.” —New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery

With echoes of classic Hollywood love stories like Serendipity and An Affair to Remember, Viola Shipman’s latest winter charmer following the USA TODAY bestseller The Secret of Snow is sure to tug on heartstrings and delight readers who love books about books, missed connections and the magic of Christmas.

Despite losing her parents in a tragic accident just before her fourteenth Christmas, Susan Norcross has had it better than most, with loving grandparents to raise her and a gang of quirky, devoted friends to support her. Now a successful bookstore owner in a tight-knit Michigan lakeside community, Susan is facing down forty—the same age as her mother when she died—and she can’t help but see everything she hasn’t achieved, including finding a love match of her own. To add to the pressure, everyone in her small town believes it’s Susan’s destiny to meet and marry a man dressed as Santa, just like her mother and grandmother before her. So it seems cosmically unfair that the man she makes an instant connection with at an annual Santa Run is lost in the crowd before she can get his name.

What follows is Susan and her friends’ hilarious and heartwarming search for the mystery Santa—covering twelve months of social media snafus, authors behaving badly and dating fails—as well as a poignant look at family, friendship and what defines a well-lived and well-loved life.

“Viola Shipman has written a captivating story for anyone whose memories run deep… This book keeps faith and hope alive!” —New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods

A Country Living Magazine Best Christmas Book to Read This Holiday Season!

Don't miss bestselling author Viola Shipman's charming new novel, THE WISHING BRIDGE—where an ambitious executive rediscovers the magic of family, friendship, home...and Christmas!

Other books by Viola Shipman:

• Famous in a Small Town
• The Secret of Snow
• The Edge of Summer
• The Summer Cottage
• The Heirloom Garden
• The Clover Girls

Fun Christmas Listen

I really enjoyed this holiday book. The narrator did a good job with the characters. I laughed, cried and cheered for the characters. It is a story of hopeful family and friends.

Christmas magic

2 great feel good stories! Reminder of what Christmas can be if we remember to care for others.

Heartwarming holiday novel

What a beautiful and heartfelt welcome to the holiday season! And the bonus short story is one you must hear!

Religion

Too sappy. I just had to fast forward too much. Not what I had hoped for.

More complex than most of this author's books

I listen to Shipman's books mostly because of the Michigan settings. Usually the sweet, over-the-top language is barely tolerable, violating "show don't tell" constantly, grating on my ears. While the overall story in this novel was predictable, that's not a problem for me as long as the characters are realistic and well-developed. In this Shipman novel I found more complexity than in "her" other novels, which was much appreciated.

A number of reviews mention being put off by the element of religion, but that's to be expected in a Shipman novel. If it's a big problem, find another author.

I hope this new complexity is a taste of things to come.

A sweet holiday story

Really enjoyed this one… fun and sweet. The narrator was great. A perfect Christmas time read.

Hallmark story on steroids

The author repeatedly references Hallmark movies in the story. I got the sense that she did that as an homage to genre that she emulates or hopes to get picked up and turned into a Hallmark movie . Those who are aficionados of Christmas Romance novels will probably love this book. Not my cup of tea. I was swayed by one review I read from another author and bought the book. I haltingly listened all the way through but couldn't stomach the bonus story. This book made my teeth hurt due to the excess level of sugary sweet content.

you are going to learn more than you want.

Really long. Kind of predictable but still okay. Interesting characters with some humor thrown in. The narration was really very well done.

Perfect for the new year

So much of this story resonated with me and was perfect as my first read for 2023! So if you are looking for relatable characters and situations, along with romance and mystery….This one fits the bill. Shipman gets better and better with each novel!

The descriptive language used by the author makes you feel like you are in the story with the chactacters.

The sweetness of the life lessons learned from this story are my favorite take aways from book.