Wish You Were Here (Holt novel)

Wish You Were Here
First edition
AuthorTom Holt
GenreHumor, fiction
PublishedLondon: Orbit, 1998
Media typeBook
Pages252
ISBN9781857235555
OCLC39001561

Wish You Were Here is a humorous fantasy novel by English author Tom Holt. It was first published in the U.K by Orbit Books in 1998.[1]

Synopsis

A mischievous ghost tricks visitors into falling into Lake Chicopee, where — instead of drowning — they receive what they were wishing for at the time of their accident.[2]

Reception

At infinity plus, Nick Gifford stated that it had "super comic writing", which was reminiscent of Tom Sharpe, but faulted it for "mechanical" storytelling, with "protagonists (who) are too caricatured for any of their tribulations and transformations to really matter."[3]

References

  1. ^ Wish You Were Here. OCLC 39001561. Retrieved 7 April 2014 – via OCLC Worldcat.
  2. ^ Watt, Donald (18 April 1998). "In hot water - Books". The Times.
  3. ^ Wish You Were Here, reviewed by Nick Gifford, at infinity plus; published March 28, 1998; retrieved April 14, 2019


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