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by NikitaLalwani (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $13.10
Synopsis

Numbers have filled Rumi Vasi's world since she first learned to count. But it was on a trip to India at the age of 8 that her mathematical powers acquired their almost supernatural significance. When she returned home to Cardiff her destiny was sealed: she was now, and would forever be, the town's `maths prodigy'.At 14 Rumi is firmly set on the path of a gifted child, speeding headlong towards Oxford University. As her father sees it, discipline is everything if the family has any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country. However, as Rumi gets older and the family's stark isolation intensifies, numbers start to lose their magic for the young teenager: she abandons the rigid timetable of her afternoons to seek out friendship and replaces equations with rampant spice abuse. As her longing for love and her parents' will to succeed deepen so too does the rift between generations.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Open market ed
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 01 May 2008
ISBN 10: 0141036125
ISBN 13: 9780141036120

Media Reviews
'Lalwani's evocation of teenage dislocation is pitch-perfect and she inhabits her heroine's interior world with tender authority'
Guardian
Beautiful, brilliant . . . Unveils the grand emotions and tiny details of other people's lives with insight, compassion, humour and heartbreaking honesty
Stephen Merchant
Superb, brilliantly realised . . . especially memorable for its sensuous power . . . The searing narrative is unflinchingly and tenderly written
The Independent
Accomplished and confident . . . Much to admire from the assured descriptions to the well judged blend of comedy and drama
The Times
'Lalwani's evocation of teenage dislocation is pitch-perfect and she inhabits her heroine's interior world with tender authority'
Guardian
Beautiful, brilliant . . . Unveils the grand emotions and tiny details of other people's lives with insight, compassion, humour and heartbreaking honesty
Stephen Merchant
Superb, brilliantly realised . . . especially memorable for its sensuous power . . . The searing narrative is unflinchingly and tenderly written
The Independent
Accomplished and confident . . . Much to admire from the assured descriptions to the well judged blend of comedy and drama
The Times
Author Bio
Nikita Lalwani was born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1973 and raised in Cardiff. After several years of directing factual television and documentaries at the BBC, she has returned to writing fiction. Gifted is her first novel. She lives in London.