This is an Online Internet Book Club on A Wish In Time by Laurel Bradley. Discuss this book, share your thoughts, make comments, ask questions, offer responses...
Description
In eighteenth–century Scotland, Magda McClellan, eight months pregnant, is granted one wish from Auld Annie, a wise woman accused of witchcraft. But Magda declines to use her wish because she is perfectly happy; besides, she doesn’t believe in witches. Little does she know how that refusal will forever change her life.
In twenty–first century New York, Maggie McDonald and her husband desperately want to have a child. While they wait for a procedure at a fertility clinic, a Scottish nurse named Annie promises to grant them a baby … if that’s their wish. When Maggie awakens, she finds herself round with child in the eighteenth century and panics. Magda has also been catapulted through time, waking up in a hospital bed in New York—and she’s not pregnant anymore. When she goes home with a man who claims to be her husband, she searches for clues to the identity of this Maggie McDonald, whose body she now inhabits.
Why is Magda here? And why is she no longer pregnant? As the two women become familiar with their new worlds, they find themselves on emotional paths of self–discovery—but will they find the way home before it’s too late?
Book Club Questions for A Wish In Time (Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for A Wish In Time (Fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on A Wish In Time:
- Did Laurel Bradley emphasize any specific themes throughout A Wish In Time? What do you think Laurel Bradley is trying to explain with this theme?
- What was unique about the setting of A Wish In Time and how did it affect the storyline?
- Could you relate to any of the characters? If so, which ones and why?
- How do characters change or learn throughout A Wish In Time? What events caused these changes? Have you or someone you know experienced the same thing?
- How does A Wish In Time reveal Laurel Bradley's own perspectives about people and the world? For a lively discussion, describe why you think Laurel Bradley is liberal or conservative.
- Did certain parts of A Wish In Time affect you emotionally? Why did it evoke those emotions?
- Did Laurel Bradley's point of view on things lend new perspective to your own view of the world?
Book Club Questions for A Wish In Time (for Non-Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for A Wish In Time (Non-fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on A Wish In Time:
- Did Laurel Bradley make persuasive arguments in A Wish In Time? Did A Wish In Time change or reinforce your opinion on the subject?
- What did you learn from A Wish In Time?
- How does Laurel Bradley present the information and did you enjoy it?
- How is Laurel Bradley biased within A Wish In Time? Is there a political slant to what is being discussed and how does it impact the book?
- What, if anything, does A Wish In Time make you want to read next? Why?
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