Follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they purchase "a garden," and board the bus to carry it home. The pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are lovingly planted in a window box, and the candles on the cake are lighted--just as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise.
The candles dripped onto the icing as Robin deliberated. What could she possibly wish? She wanted to wake up the next day and learn all her problems were gone. But since her problems weren’t going to disappear, she didn’t want to be Robin anymore. “I wish I was somebody else,” Robin wished. And in that moment, she meant it. She blew out the candles.
32 Candles is the slightly twisted, utterly romantic, and deftly wry story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn't stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams.
A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont.His home,the House of a Thousand Candles,so called for the owner's preference to candle light,is left empty save a faithful servant--his fortune mysteriously vanished,though rumored to still have been hidden in the house somewhere. John Glenarm,the late old man's grandson,stands to inherit the estate(and so the secret fortune)under the stipulation that he live in the house for one year.If he fails,the house will be forfeited and awarded to Marian Devereaux,the niece of the nun who operates the nearby Saint Agatha's School for girls....
