The Wishing Bridge, Viola Shipman
The Wishing Bridge, Viola Shipman
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The Wishing Bridge

Author: Viola Shipman

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/07/2023


Synopsis

With unabashed winter charm, The Wishing Bridge sparkles with the humor and heart fans of Kristy Woodson Harvey, Nancy Thayer and Jenny Colgan love most.

Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When Henri’s boss makes it clear she’ll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner’s—their iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan, Christmas store—to a massive, soulless corporation. It’s the kind of deal cool, corporate Henri has built her career on.

Home for the holidays has typically meant a perfunctory twenty-four-hour visit for Henri, then back to Detroit as fast as her car will drive her. So turning up at the Wegner’s offices in early December raises some eyebrows: from her delighted, if puzzled, parents to her suspicious brother and curious childhood friends. But as Henri fields impatient texts from her boss while reconnecting with the magic of the store and warmth of her hometown, what sounded great in the boardroom begins to lose its luster in real life. She’s running out of time to pull the trigger on what could be the greatest success of her career…or the most awkward family holiday of her life.

Includes the bonus novella Christmas Angels

About Viola Shipman

Wade Rouse is a popular award-winning memoirist and internationally bestselling author of twelve books, which have been translated into twenty languages and selected as Today show Must-Reads, Indie Next Picks and Michigan Notable Books. Rouse writes fiction under his grandma’s name, Viola Shipman, to honor the woman whose heirlooms inspire his writing. He lives in Michigan and California, and hosts Wine & Words with Wade, A Literary Happy Hour, every Thursday.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on September 10, 2023

Heartwarming Christmas story! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love a good Christmas romance and women’s fiction, especially when it comes from an author like Shipman who writes deeply fulfilling stories. They can make your heart sing with happiness. This book had me twisted up several times as the main character beca......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on March 27, 2024

Viola Shipman is an author I’ve read before and knew could do a good feel good story that I like to sit down with when I start thinking ‘Tis the Season. The Wishing Bridge certainly also looked to be just one of those contemporary romance/women’s ficiton reads that would fit that bill too. The Wishin......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on November 11, 2023

Will Henri really sell her family business to a huge corporation - the business her father created in their basement? Henri was told by her boss that if she didn't come up with a big idea and deal by the end of the year, she was going to be fired. Her company invests in small businesses and turns them......more

Goodreads review by Judy on October 15, 2023

I picked this book up because I have read several of Viola Shipman's books and enjoyed them all. This one reminds me of Hallmark Christmas movies. It is full of both laughs and heart-wrenching angst. Description: Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can......more

Goodreads review by Kari on December 29, 2023

I'll be honest, this just wasn't a book for me. I had a hard time connecting with "Henri". She is supposed to be in her 50s but she is written much younger. I almost felt like the character was originally supposed to be in her 30s maybe (?), but she was aged up for an unknown reason. I also had a bi......more