Eventually, Rob's re-examination of his failed relationships, a one-time stand with an American musician named Marie De Salle, and the death of Laura's father bring the two back together. Rob, recalling these breakups, sets about getting in touch with the former girlfriends. Rob uses this exercise to create his own list: "The top five most memorable split-ups." This list includes the following ex-girlfriends: 1) Alison Ashworth, 2) Penny Hardwick, 3) Jackie Allen, 4) Charlie Nicholson, and 5) Sarah Kendrew. At his record shop, Rob and his employees, Dick and Barry, spend their free moments discussing mix-tape aesthetics and constructing desert-island "top-five" lists of anything that demonstrates their knowledge of music, movies, and pop culture. His lawyer girlfriend, Laura, has just left him and now he's going through a crisis. Rob Fleming is a 35-year-old man who owns a record shop in London called Championship Vinyl. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. It has sold over a million copies and was later adapted into a feature film in 2000, a Broadway musical in 2006 and a TV series in 2020. High Fidelity is a novel by British author Nick Hornby first published in 1995.
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