Author:Nikita Lalwani
Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground and gives a pattern to her world. But after years of her father's determined tutoring, Rumi finds that numbers are beginning to lose their innocence. India infuses her with a romantic sense of belonging and, as she grows older, and desire becomes a dirty word in the Vasi household, the idea of love is opened up to painful examination.
In a voice that is by turns very funny and fiercely tender, Nikita Lalwani brings us a captivating story of high aspirations and deep longing, and of the sometime loneliness of childhood.
A sparkling funny and poignant study of a young maths prodigy struggling with her gift and a difficult family
—— Gerard Woodward, , Books of the Year , ObserverSuperb, brilliantly realised. The searing narrative is unflinchingly and tenderly written
—— IndependentPinpoints with genuine insight the bewilderment and anguish of a young woman marked out from her peers
—— Sunday TimesLalwani's evocation of teenage dislocation is pitch-perfect and she inhabits her heroine's interior world with tender authority
—— GuardianThe novel's triumph is in elucidating the hurt of both child and parents. Lalwani compellingly depicts the pain and pleasure of breaking the rules
—— New StatesmanBeautiful, brilliant . . . Unveils the grand emotions and tiny details of other people's lives with insight, compassion, humour and heartbreaking honesty
—— Stephen MerchantAccomplished and confident. Much to admire from the assured descriptions to the well judged blend of comedy and drama
—— The TimesA poignant, vivid debut. Beautifully describes the dramas of growing up
—— , Book of the Month , Marie ClaireA giddy portrayal of youthful exuberance unleashed that rings startlingly true
—— MetroCompelling, heart-wrenching and laced with redemptive hope . . . Touching and funny
—— ObserverSuch is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility
—— GuardianVintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels
—— Los Angeles Times Book Review[A] treat...Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done
—— Baltimore SunMurakami's most famous coming of age novel of love, loss and longing
—— Dazed and ConfusedCatches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily observed.
—— Times Literary Supplement[A] treat . . . Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done.
—— The Baltimore SunOne of the most poignant and evocative novels I have ever read
—— PalantinatePoignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates heartbreak and loss of faith
—— Sunday Times
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