If Wishing Made It So

by Lucy Finn

Hildy Caldwell is lonely and loveless--so she splurges on a summer rental on Long Beach Island, where she hopes the wind might blow a handsome man her way. Instead, she finds an abandoned bottle--with a 2000-year-old meddlesome genie inside. Magic and mayhem follow, along with what Hildy's been wishing for: a meeting with the man she has never stopped loving...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451224590
• ISBN13: 9780451224590
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.6" x 6.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

whimsical lighthearted second chance at love tale

A decade ago, Hildy Caldwell was voted the Girl Most Likely to Succeed at Lake Lehman High School by her class; now with the ten year reunion coming she feels like a failure as she never followed her dreams to paint in New York or Tahiti. Instead Hildy teaches English at her Alma Mata and has no man or children in her life; she lives with two cats. She never forgot her high school boyfriend, Big Mike Amante, who is attending the reunion accompanied by his fiancée, famous celebrity photographer Tiki, Kiki, Wiki whatever. Seeking a change, she rents a summer cottage on the Jersey shore; there she finds an antique bottle in which a genie calls home. He will grant her wish, but sometimes you get what you ask for. The Genie plays critical but small role in this whimsical lighthearted second chance at love tale. Hildy is wonderful with her reflections on her marmalade life, her unfulfilled teenage dreams, and her men; for instance the last hunk made her choose between her cats and him; no contest. Big Mike is a fine significant other though it takes a bit of magical glitter at times to enhance love. Harriet Klausner