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Addition by Toni Jordan (Hodder, [pounds]7.99)
NUMBERS obsess Grace Lisa Vandenburg, invading her mind and squatting on every passing thought -- as she puts it, 'scaffolding' her life. She is 172cm tall. There are 19 letters in her name. It's 870 steps from the front fence to the shop. At the shop, she's so distressed to find she has only nine bananas in her basket when there are, satisfyingly, ten of every other item, that she deliberately creates a distraction so she can pinch one from the man behind her. But how to escape the obsessive numerical commentary? How to live without constantly calibrating and hiding behind an empty set of figures that fill her life like white noise? She has even counted the bristles in her toothbrush (1,768) for heaven's sake.See the full content of this document
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But then 'supermarket-man' turns up in her life and things begin to change. This is an unusual and intriguing novel...
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