Wishes Are Like ... the sequel to Wren Bay
October 15, 2015
Wishes are like …
lace.
Fragile bits of thread, twisted and knotted and woven into a thing of wonder.
A worker’s heart and dreams go into this small bit of lace.
She painstakingly works each spool, over, around and through until a pattern appears.
Our life is the same.
Fine threads of dreams and wishes we carefully weave and twist until …
the pattern of our life appears.
Good day! After 5 years I am please to announce my second cooking novel Wishes Are Like ... the sequel to Wren Bay is published. Writing Wishes was like a long labor, but I found out I actually love to write. With Wren, I just sat down to write a two page story about a doll and out came a novel. Wishes is so much more. I wanted to write a much more compelling story, as well as reflecting what a cooking/crafting blog represents. I feel I have done that with Wishes Are Like ..
In the first novel/cookbook Wren was adjusting to a new life, as a married person, in a new place, Bay Farm.. Now four years later Wren is dealing with what she wants her future to hold, and that is being a mother but her wish is not coming true. Have you ever been in a place where you know what you want? Your gut can picture your future, but it is not happening. Even more so, there is nothing you can do to make it happen but wait. Waiting for most of us is a very difficult place to be, I know it is for me. Like Wren, I want to make things happen, now. To get in there and push, control, and just plain use my will, to make them happen. But there are times in our lives where we have to die to our wishes and just let things happen.
This is the heart of Wishes Are Like ... The importance of having wishes but holding them gently. Wren has a wish to be a mother, Devlin has a wish to be what Wren needs, Aida has a wish to be strong and make a hard choice, Luc has the wish to trust again, Sophia has the wish to be able to let someone into her life and Thayer cannot acknowledge his wish. Not all wishes come true, but it is important to wish no matter what because without wishes, one's life would be very small and sad.
Wishes has 29 chapter, 4 parts, as well as 42 original recipes. Storybook Woods is about taking the simple things of life and making celebrations out of them. Wish Are Like ... reflects this and will inspire you in your own life!
A review of Wishes Are Like ....
"Clarice Fox-Hughes’ latest novel, “Wishes Are Like…’, will delight readers of “Wren Bay: The Story The Making a Home”. Wren and Devlin have matured and so has Fox-Hughes’ ability to weave a story that entrances the reader from the first page to the last! Familiar characters reappear in the novel, Madam Mimi, Aunt Sophia, Lily, and Mary, but new characters introduce fresh themes to the novel as well, enriching the novel with their own stories and challenges.
Long anticipated, “Wish Are Like…” promises to leave the reader eager for the next chapter in Wren and Devlin Bay’s lives." Matty Holder
Wishes Are Like... is available in my shop
Where oh where is it dear Clarice? Not in your lulu shop that I can find :( love Gill
Posted by: Gill | October 21, 2015 at 05:19 AM
Dear Clarice,
That is so wonderful! I am so happy that you have been able to finish the second book, and know that it will bless many lives. We're in the middle of packing and having faith that we'll find a new house soon, but once we figure things out I'll be ordering a copy!
Love,
Marqueta
Posted by: Marqueta | October 16, 2015 at 03:58 PM
Congratulations, Clarice! Writing a book is a wonderful accomplishment, and writing two of them even more! Wishing you great success!
Posted by: Lorrie | October 15, 2015 at 08:44 PM