I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella.

I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella. 

(Bantam Press, 16th February 2012.)

A couple of glasses of champagne at a charity event means Poppy loses the one thing she wasn’t meant to lose – an antique engagement ring that’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. Also, in the panic that followed, Poppy also loses her mobile phone.

Disconnected from everyone who may find her ring, Poppy feels as if her life is about to go into meltdown. That is, until she finds an abandoned mobile phone in a bin. Finders Keepers right? The owner, businessman Sam Roxton doesn’t’ think so and he doesn’t appreciate Poppy’s suggestion to share the phone and her prying into his personal affairs.

As Poppy tries to juggle her wedding plans, Sam’s e-mails and hiding her hand from Magnus and her future in-laws, she wonders if life could get any more complicated.

I’m the first to admit that I’m a total Kinsella obsessive and I was eagerly anticipating this latest release. Simply put, I loved this book.

All the characters are warm and funny as well as being very developed.

The plot is surprising, believable and a testament to how assumptions can be incorrect.

Poppy is wonderfully real, amusing and neurotic and someone who I could totally empathize with. I devoured page after page, as I didn’t want to put the book down, reading into the early hours. I wanted to know what happened but I didn’t want it to end all at the same time. It had me eagerly reading right up until the last page.

It’s a delightful story about how two people can be connected through modern technology and how life can suddenly change and surprise you.

What I also thought was a nice touch was the very clever I-phone and Android application (available though the app stores,) which will allow you to animate the front cover as well as a message from Sophie Kinsella herself.

Fans of Sophie’s books as well as new fans will love this latest story. I certainly did.

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Laura

I’m Laura. I started Novel Kicks in 2009. I wanted a place to post my writing as well as give other writers like me the opportunity to do the same. There is also a monthly book club, a writing room which features writing prompts, book reviews, competitions, author interviews and guest posts.

I grew up by the sea (my favourite place in the world) and I currently live in Hampshire. I am married to Chris, have a cat named Buddy and I would love to be a writer. I’m trying to write the novel I’ve talked so much about writing if only I could stop pressing delete. I’ve loved writing since creative writing classes in primary school. I have always wanted to see my teacher Miss Sayers again and thank her for the encouragement. When not trying to write the novel or writing snippets of stories on anything I can get my hands on, I love reading, dancing like a loon and singing to myself very badly. My current obsession is Once Upon a Time and I would be happy to live with magic in the enchanted forest surrounded by all those wonderful stories provided that world also included Harry Potter. I love reading chick lit. contemporary fiction and novels with mystery.