As a six-year-old in the school playground you are asked to choose your favourite "Man From Uncle" character: Napoleon Solo or Illya Kuriakin? If you choose the latter you are small, quiet and sensitive, prone to screaming fits and bullied. If the former, you join a gang, can look after yourself, become a successful businessman, get married. You make the choices, the story is your life. 'Life's Lottery' is a novel you can play like a game, read like a book or live like a life.