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Rumi Vasi Is Ten Years, Two Months, Thirteen Days, Two Hours, Forty-Two Minutes And Six Seconds Old. The Probability Of Her Walking Home From School With John Kemble Is 0.2142, A Probability Severely Reduced By The Lacy Frock And Thick Woollen Tights She Is Forced To Wear By Her Father. Numbers Have Filled Rumi S World Since She First Learned To Count. It Was On A Trip To India At The Age Of Eight That Her Mathematical Powers Acquired Their Almost Supernatural Significance. When She Returned Home To Cardiff, Her Destiny Was Sealed: She Was Now The Town S Maths Prodigy . But Rumi Is Growing Up And Numbers No Longer Occupy Her Every Waking Moment: She Abandons Her Homework To Seek Out Friendship And Replaces Equations With Stories From Malory Towers. And, As The Family S Stark Isolation Intensifies, So Too Does Rumi S Desire For Love. A Dazzling Novel Of High Aspirations And Deep Longing, Nikita Lalwani S Debut Captures Brilliantly The Battle To Come Of Age In An Emotional And Comic Hinterland Where History, Arithmetic And Cumin Seeds All Play A Part.