Gifted by Lalwani Nikita

Gifted by Lalwani Nikita

Rumi Vashey 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. For Rumi is a gifted child and, as her father sees it, discipline is everything if the family is to have any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country. 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 pressure at home intensifies, so too does Rumi's desire for love. 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.

OutstandingRich, vivid, fluent and well paced with a wonderful cast of well developed, engaging characters and a constantly surprising story line * Gerard Woodward *
Outstanding. Rich, vivid, fluent and well paced with a wonderful cast of well developed, engaging characters and a constantly surprising story line * Gerard Woodward *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780670917136
ISBN 10	0670917133
Title	Gifted
Author	Lalwani Nikita
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2007-06-28
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of Desmond Elliott Prize 2008, Short-listed for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2008, Short-listed for Costa First Novel Award 2007
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