num_pages: 243
description: Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local cafe (920). The number of poppy seeds on her orange cake which dictates the number of bites she'll take to eat it. Grace counts everything because that way there are no unpleasant surprises. Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (also a 19) thinks she might be better off without the counting. If she could hold down a job say. Or open her cupboards without conducting an inventory or leave her flat without measuring the walls. Grace's problem is that Seamus doesn't count. Her other problem is ...he does. As Grace struggles to balance a new relationship with old habits to find a way to change while staying true to herself she realises that nothing is more chaotic than love.
language: English
title: Addition
publisher: Sceptre