When Gina Bellamy splits up with her husband and moves from a house to a flat she decides to downscale by reducing her possessions to just 100 meaningful things. As she chooses which items to keep and discard she looks back at her life and her story so far is recounted.
From the synopsis I was expecting this to be a series of 100 short chapters. However, there are just a few items discussed with their background and the story really does take a more conventional form. Further on in the story, her friend/relationship with a professional photographer, inspires her to create a wall full of 100 Polaroid (really?) photographs of meaningful moments in her current life, but again this idea isn't followed through.
I choose this book because of my love of lists so I have to say that it really didn't pan out as I expected it too. Having said that I didn't dislike the book. It was well written with believable characters in spite of some of the plot devices being rather far fetched. It was a light, easy read that whiled away a few hours, but I wasn't mad about it.
(The cover with the dog BTW, even though there was a greyhound in the story, was something that I really found to be an odd choice...)
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