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She’s spent a lifetime making everyone else’s wishes come true. Now it’s her turn.

Lily Bramston’s plans for her fresh start:

Sell the family home? Check.

Move to a Scottish village? Check.

Tell her grown-up children to sort out their own Christmas dinner? With pleasure.

Buy a smart speaker that comes with a genie? Hang on…

At sixty-seven, Lily is used to being needed. She’s cooked the dinners, looked after the grandchildren and made sure everyone else had somewhere to go at Christmas. Moving to Cranley is the first thing she’s done entirely for herself in years, and although her family thinks she’s lost her mind, Lily is beginning to feel as though she might be finding it.

Her new cottage comes with welcoming neighbours, the possibility of a new job and Simon, a village hairdresser who’s rather harder to dismiss than she’d like. It also comes with Callista, a silver-haired genie living in Lily’s smart speaker. Callista has three wishes to grant and no intention of sitting quietly while Lily claims she doesn’t need anything.

But Lily has spent so long knowing what everyone else wants that she can’t answer the one question that matters. If she could ask for anything, what would make her happy?

Perfect for readers who love small-town charm, Christmas magic and romance later in life, A Wish for Lily is Book 5 in the Cranley Wishes series: a funny, uplifting story about finally making room for yourself.