title: My Wish List: A Novel
author: Gregoire Delacourt
description: *Starred Review* At 47, Jocelyn Guerbette is fairly sure nothing in her life is going to get remarkably better. Owning a fabric shop is stable if unexciting work, her grown children only fill her in on the barest details of their lives, and her husband seems to desire nothing more than a flat-screen TV and every James Bond DVD ever produced. Still, small glimmers of happiness, like catching up on small-town gossip with the twins who work at the hair salon next door, make Jocelyn content. When Franoise and Danile convinceher to buy a lottery ticket, Jocelyn never expects her spur-of-the-moment purchase to pay off. But pay off it does, and Jocelyn quietly exchanges her winning ticket for a terrifyingly large check. While she decides how to tell her friends and family about her winnings, Jocelyn realizes just how life-changing her new fortune could be. My Wish List is about one womans one-in-a-million response to a one-in-a-million chance. Jocelyn is an immensely likable narrator, and Delacourts fluid, elegant prose brings layers of depth to a relatively simple story. Fans of Chocolat (1999) and The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2008) will adore My Wish List, an emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting story of ambition, risk, and acceptance. --Stephanie Turza
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  > > A FEARLESS GOVERNESS FOR THE FORSAKEN DUKE
  
  > > A HISTORICAL REGENCY ROMANCE NOVEL
  
  > > EMMA LINFIELD
  
  > > Edited by
  
  > > ROBIN SPENCER
  
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  > CONTENTS
  
  > [A Thank You Gift](index_split_002.html#filepos7242)
  
  > [Chapter 1](index_split_004.html#filepos10256)
  
  > [Chapter 2](index_split_005.html#filepos32383)
  
  > [Chapter 3](index_split_006.html#filepos55887)
  
  > [Chapter 4](index_split_007.html#filepos81958)
  
  > [Chapter 5](index_split_008.html#filepos101201)
  
  > [Chapter 6](index_split_009.html#filepos135947)
  
  > [Chapter 7](index_split_010.html#filepos150930)
  
  > [Chapter 8](index_split_011.html#filepos167113)
  
  > [Chapter 9](index_split_012.html#filepos181512)
  
  > [Chapter 10](index_split_013.html#filepos214473)
  
  > [Chapter 11](index_split_014.html#filepos238431)
  
  > [Chapter 12](index_split_015.html#filepos252061)
  
  > [Chapter 13](index_split_016.html#filepos263639)
  
  > [Chapter 14](index_split_017.html#filepos276274)
  
  > [Chapter 15](ind