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My Wish List by Grégoire Delacourt

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with 2015, book review, books Leanne will like, French, Grégoire Delacourt, review December 11, 2015

Can money buy happiness? That is the question at the core of Grégoire Delacourt’s quaint novel, My Wish List.

Jocelyne is middle-aged, has been married to the same man for decades, lives in a small provincial French town and runs her own dressmaking shop. Her life is quite different to what she imagined it might be. In fact, her life is ordinary. And then she wins the lottery. Continue reading →

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