A review by jaclyncrupi
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison

3.0

This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! certainly has some charming aspects (our 78-year-old protagonist calls everyone 'dear', drinks too much and talks to her ghost husband) but doesn't quite work overall. I enjoyed the talk show style narrator until I didn't. The tone is snarky and the book is dark. There is a lot of heart in this book but it's let down by the narrator in the final third. Ultimately, the gimick highlights the artifice of the concept. This is a life stripped bare but not one that offers much hope or promise.