Wish You Well
About this book
Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love.
Reader Profile
4.1/5 · 34050 readers · 368 pages · ≈ 6 h 49 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Wish You Well?
About ≈ 6 h 49 m — 368 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Wish You Well?
368 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Wish You Well?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Has Wish You Well been made into a movie or TV show?
Yes — screen adaptations include Wish You Well (2013).
Is Wish You Well in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does Wish You Well take place?
It is set in Virginia, Southern Appalachian Region during 20th century.
Who wrote Wish You Well?
David Baldacci (1960–0).