The Wish: From the number one internationally bestselling author
By (Author) Heather Morris
Bonnier Books Ltd
Echo
9th September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Paperback
352
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
Jesse is 15. She loves her friends, her little brother and her parents, even though they argue all the time. But most of all she loves playing video games, even from her hospital bed. Alex is 27; he doesn't love a lot of things, he's not even sure he knows how. His desk at his office - a video game company - is empty, much as his life feels sometimes.
But then Jesse makes a wish ... that only Alex can make come true. Together they will have to face their worst fears to find out if either of them can have the happy ending they deserve.
One loving kid. One emotionally stunted adult.
Which one will get the happy ending
Born in New Zealand, Heather Morris is passionate about stories of survival, resilience and hope. In 2003, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who 'might just have a story worth telling'. The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Lale's story formed the basis for The Tattooist of Auschwitz and the follow-up novel, Cilka's Journey. In 2021 she published the phenomenal conclusion to the Tattooist trilogy, Three Sisters, after being asked to tell the story of three Holocaust survivors who knew Lale from their time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Together, her novels have sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. Sisters Under the Rising Sun, a heart-wrenching novel based upon the experiences of women in Japanese POW camps, was published in 2023 to great acclaim. Heather's first contemporary novel, Jesse's Wish, will be published in September 2025.