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

4.0

A very enjoyable, sweet little novel about an elderly widow who decides to go on a cruise that was left to her by her late husband. An entry in the rapidly growing "senior-stories" canon, alongside great entries like The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules or The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! isn't afraid to show old age as it really is, and its nonlinear narrative structure (flipping and sliding and flying about from Harriet at age zero to Harriet in her late seventies) can be a little grating. Alas, once it gets going, it becomes a delightful, endlessly gratifying tale about a lady going out of her comfort zone, something which we can all relate to.


I think I'm supposed to mention that I won this in a Goodreads giveaway (my first win ever!), so here is that mention. Yay!