About the book: 2020 / 1951 On the bank of the river stands an oak tree covered with moss, the Tree of Wishes, which has long kept other people's secrets. According to legend, if you write your deepest wish on a ribbon and put it in a hollow, it will come true. Three friends - Margaret, Beatty and Sissy - decide to try their luck. They make wishes that actually begin to come true. But not at all the way they would like. Present day Larkin returns to the uninhabited, dilapidated house after a fire, where she once lived with her mother Ivy and Sissy, who raised them both. Trying to understand what started the fire in the house, Larkin plunges into the secrets of the distant past, and this forces her to rethink her own life and attitude towards her loved ones..