I've Got Your Number

I’ve Got Your Number
By Sophie Kinsella
Dial Press, 2012. 433 pgs. Fiction

Life is just about perfect for Poppy Wyatt. She’s engaged to a handsome professor AND has a gorgeous antique engagement ring on her finger. That is until one afternoon when it all goes wrong. First, that priceless antique ring goes missing in a fire drill at a hotel. Then her phone is stolen. So no one could blame Poppy, when she notices a working and rather nice phone in the trash. Isn’t there something about possession is 9/10 of the law? Poppy gives the new number out to the hotel to call if they find the ring. So when the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, wants his phone back, Poppy strikes a bargain with him that she will forward all his messages, if she can be allowed to keep the phone for just a few days. Sam reluctantly agrees and hilarity ensues as Poppy and Sam’s in-boxes and lives get uproariously muddled.

Poppy is completely clueless and doesn't think about the consequences of her actions. She also runs away from things that she doesn’t want to deal with and hates confrontations. That being said, Poppy is completely adorable. You just can't hold her failings against her.

I'd rate this as one of Kinsella's more enjoyable novels. It’s too bad that there was so much swearing because otherwise it is also one of the cleaner Chick-lit novels I’ve read.

AJ