My Wish List by Gregoire Delacourt 163 pages

What would you do if you won over twenty-three million dollars in the lottery?  My Wish List is about Jocelyn, middle class shop owner in Arras, France, who does win the lottery in that amount.  She has two grown children who live in Grenoble and England and her husband who works in a factory.

Jocelyn makes the decision to keep her winnings a secret although she does collect the check and hides it in her closet.  What happens to the check and to her and her family makes for a very good read.

When Jocelyn is in the gaming headquarters she is told she must meet their psychologist.  This woman’s job is to put the fear of god (or money) into the owner of the jackpot.  The psychologist recites all the bad things that happen to winners, the leeches and swindlers and family members who will attempt to share the money at any expense.

Through the book Jocelyn makes lists of how she will spend the money and on whom she will bestow gifts.

I enjoyed this book but I did not understand the blurb on the back of the book that said “one feels unbelievably happy reading this”.  That was false advertising, if you ask me.