Wish You Were Here
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3.6 • 15 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
The compelling new story from number one bestseller Jodi Picoult.
Diana O'Toole's life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she's up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby's and she's about to fly to the Galápagos where she's convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn, is going to propose.
But then the virus hits New York City and Finn breaks the news: the hospital needs him, he has to stay. But you should still go, he insists. And reluctantly, she agrees.
Once she's in the Galápagos, the world shuts down around her, leaving Diana stranded - albeit in paradise. Completely isolated, with only intermittent news from the outside world, Diana finds herself examining everything that has brought her to this point and wondering if there's a better way to live.
But not everything is as it seems . . .
(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Customer Reviews
It’s my way
I was delighted with the first few chapters of this novel - at last, I thought a book to simply enjoy. The main character, Diana, and her partner, Flynn, are intelligent, thoughtful, committed characters doing interesting work. The plot is clever device by which to examine the horrific toll that Covid took on its victims and on the health service. It also becomes a device by which to examine American entitlement, and the philosophy of our age: me first.
But alas two-thirds of the way through, this philosophy begins to drive the narrative: Diana recovering from Covid becomes selfish, self-indulgent, self-pitying and an awful bore as we readers and listeners have to listen to her endless wail of complaint and self-justification. But, of course, in the end it doesn’t matter as she does it her way, and it is seen as a triumph of freedom.