It employs a first-person narrative the story is told in the voice of its protagonist, Diana, largely following the events unfolding in its present-day timeline. Wish You Were Here is set during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, at the time a crisis of an unprecedented global magnitude. Many of her works have been adapted for the stage and screen, and Wish You Were Here was acquired by Netflix in November 2021, with an intent to adapt it into a feature film. Her writing often focuses on family, love, and relationships. She and Nick must face England's underwater enemies, a challenge made all the more difficult when they discover the existence of Germany's supersecret submarine.In this striking adventure for readers of all ages, Nick must fight ruthless enemies across two different centuries, on land and sea, to help defeat those determined to destroy his home and his family.A repeat New York Times best-selling author, Picoult has several novels, short stories, and literary awards under her belt, including the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award. Nick must reach deep inside, using his wits, courage, and daring to rescue the imperiled British sailors.His sister, Kate, meanwhile, has enlisted the aid of two of England's most brilliant 'scientific detectives,' Lord Hawke and Commander Hobbes, to thwart the invading Nazis.

Captain McIver and, indeed, Admiral Nelson's entire fleet are threatened by the treachery of the French and the mutinous Captain Billy Blood. He uses the machine to return to the year 1805. Inside, he finds a time machine and a desperate plea for help from the captain. One day Nick discovers an old sea chest, left for him by his ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy. The information they provide to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion. Nick and Kate come to the aid of their father who is engaged in a desperate war of espionage with German U-boat wolf packs that are circling the islands. Nick and his younger sister, Kate, live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick of Time is the first young reader's book written by bestselling author Ted Bell.In the grand tradition of epic novels like Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island comes a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, in which twelve-year-old Nick McIver sets out to become 'the hero of his own life.'The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war.

Wish You Were Here by Catherine Clark