# Gifted

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- Book: [Gifted](https://www.bookquiver.com/nikita-lalwani/gifted) ([Gifted.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nikita-lalwani/gifted.md))
- Authors: [Nikita Lalwani](https://www.bookquiver.com/nikita-lalwani)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-039-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2008-05-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground and gives a pattern to her world. But after years of her father's determined tutoring, Rumi finds that numbers are beginning to lose their innocence. India infuses her with a romantic sense of belonging and, as she grows older, and desire becomes a dirty word in the Vasi household, the idea of love is opened up to painful examination. In a voice that is by turns very funny and fiercely tender, Nikita Lalwani brings us a captivating story of high aspirations and deep longing, and of the sometime loneliness of childhood.