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Tragedy strikes the New Yorkbased Cardinal family when their car is involvedin a terrible accident. Twelveyearold Lou and sevenyearold Oz survive butthe crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma. It would seemtheir world has been shattered forever until their greatgrandmother LouisaMae agrees to raise the children on her Virginia mountain farm. But beforelong their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on themountain. Determined to protect her home from the ravages of big businessLouisa Mae refuses to sell but when the neighbours hear of the potentialwealth the company could bring they begin to turn against her. And now theCardinal family find themselves ensnared in another battle to be played out ina crowded Virginia courtroom a battle for justice for survival and for theright to stay together in the only place they know as home. Filled with bothrich humour and desperate poignancy Wish You Well is a tale of family faithhumanity and prejudice set against the magical backdrop of the Virginia highrock. «
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