The Wishing Well Repair Society

About this book

Tansy Hollow is the sort of village where bread rises a little luckier and letters sometimes answer themselves — because the old wishing well still works. Until, one ordinary morning, it doesn't. When baker Winnie Trencher's coin refuses to sink, the town's quiet magic begins to fray: clocks stutter, the forest Hedge springs leaks, and a sharp-eyed stranger arrives asking to buy the well outright. Winnie, a postman who delivers to the woods, a retired hedge-witch, an innkeeper, and a clockmaker who hates committees band together as the Wishing Well Repair Society. Their search leads from a cellar ledger of long-kept promises to a spring hidden deep in the forest, where the keeper of wishes is fading — and only unasked kindnesses can wake it. But can a town that forgot how to give learn to wish backwards before the last wish runs dry?