Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 6 August 2008.
Grace Vandenburg is an attractive, intelligent, witty young woman who also suffers from OCD that makes her count everything in her world. When Seamus Joseph O'Reilly comes in to her world she finds that sometimes the counting doesn't seem to matter so much and when it does Joseph seems to understand.
This is a lovely story about just being who you are and being accepted for who you are. Grace is a wonderful character, full of quirkiness, wit and charm who is great just the way she is even if others want to "cure" her. A romantic comedy tackling the issue of OCD in a sensitive and engaging way. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Grace Lisa Vandenburg is in love with numbers. She can tell you the number of letters in her name (19), bristles in her toothbrush (1768) and her brother-in-law's height in centimetres (167).
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Grace Lisa Vandenburg is in love with numbers. She can tell you the number of letters in her name (19), bristles in her toothbrush (1768) and her brother-in-law's height in centimetres (167).Her obsession with counting has scuppered any chance of holding down a job or relationship and her life is organised according to a strict routine - she wakes up at the same time every day, flosses her teeth the same number of times each morning, takes the same number of steps to the same café, where she sits at the same table and orders a hot chocolate with two marshmallows and a slice of orange cake.
Addition features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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Addition was written by Toni Jordan and published by Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Addition has 243 pages
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