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Gifted
Gifted: A Novel | Nikita Lalwani
6 posts | 5 read | 5 to read
A dazzling first novel about a math prodigy who is being groomed by her parents to attend Oxford at the age of fourteen, Gifted heralds the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Numbers have filled Rumi Vasheys world since she first learned to count. But it was on a trip to India at the age of eight that her mathematical powers acquired their almost supernatural significance. At fourteen Rumi is firmly set on the path of a gifted child, speeding headlong towards Oxford University. As her father sees it, discipline is everything if the family is to have any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country. However, as Rumi gets older and the familys stark isolation intensifies, numbers start to lose their magic for the young teenager: she abandons the rigid timetable of her afternoons and replaces equations with rampant spice abuse. As her longing for love and her parents will to succeed deepen so too does the rift between generations. Gifted captures brilliantly the battle to come of age in an emotional and comic hinterland, where histories, arithmetic and cumin seeds all play a part. In a voice that is by turns very funny and fiercely acute Lalwani vividly brings to life a young familys search for recognition and how that search can break a family apart. A story of high aspirations and deep desires, and of the sometime loneliness of childhood, Gifted is a remarkably passionate, assured and accessible debut. From the Hardcover edition.
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CSeydel
Gifted: A Novel | Nikita Lalwani
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TWO packages arrived today, for #shortstoryswap and #hometownswap !! Yippeeee! Meanwhile I‘m still struggling to get my boxes sent for both of those. I intended to get the short story box mailed last Monday but it didn‘t make it... one more thing to go in and then I‘m really sending it this Monday. Even with the holiday I think it should get there in time 🤞🏻📚📦

MicrobeMom Yay!! 6y
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Libby1
Gifted: A Novel | Nikita Lalwani
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#ssgpthisorthat
@miralunasbooknook

1. Tea towels with a pretty pattern or from a beloved place. They bring joy to the mundane.

2. Chocolate!

3. Coffee!

4. Throw cushions with a pretty pattern or bookish theme

5. Cats!

#SecretSantaGoesPostal
#WinterSolsticeBookExchange

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Libby1
Gifted: A Novel | Nikita Lalwani
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I‘ve begun the quest for selecting the perfect #SecretSantaGoesPostal gifts!

#WinterSolsticeBookExchange

@BookBabe
@Avanders
@MrBook

❤️🌲❤️🌲❤️🌲❤️🌲❤️🌲❤️🌲❤️

MrBook 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
AmyG Yay! 🎉 7y
Libby1 😃😃😃, @MrBook and @AmyG . 7y
BookBabe 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️ 7y
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KassKho
Gifted: A Novel | Nikita Lalwani
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🔮both! But I like my used ones in nice condition
🔮both! Even though I hate waiting for sequels
🔮hot chocolate or tea!
🔮candles since I don‘t know what a wax cube is
🔮bright colours!
🔮warm blanket!
🔮I got my first one this year and now I‘m collecting all the sailor moon funko pop figures! Don‘t know if I‘ll continue past that

#giftideasthisorthat @Tiffy_Reads

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Nikita.maes
Gifted: A Novel | Nikita Lalwani
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Mehso-so

Enorm realistisch, valt alleen niet onder Young Adult denk ik. Het voelde anders. Helaas ook wel de waarheid over een hoogbegaafd meisje dat worstelt met druk van ouders en wie ze wil zijn. Aanrader, maar ik vind het een tussenslag boek. Ik gaf dit boek op Goodreads: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Libby1
Gifted: A Novel | Nikita Lalwani
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#booktober
#debutnovel
#setinaschool
#diversereads
#catsoflitsy
As today's post is all about schools I thought my cat could introduce today's book from my child's room!

Gifted is not exclusively set in a school but is about a child math prodigy so involves a lot of classrooms and studying. I read this a few years ago and it has stuck with me. Plain and simple - a good book with clear and sympathetic characters. Enjoy!

Simona Well, that's what I call green eyes ❤️😻 8y
Libby1 @Simona - oh, the trouble I had getting her to look at me to take the photo! 8y
Simona Kitty with attitude and mesmerizing eyes❣️ 8y
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Zelma 😻😻😻 8y
Libby1 Thanks, @Simona and @Zelma. She is a cat we got while living in England who is now with us in Northern Ireland. We always seem to have cats from different places we've lived. 😺🌍 8y
Zelma @Libby1 we do the same. Our first boy from Florida died two years ago, but we still have our Alaska kitty and two from here in Louisiana. 8y
Simona That's why she looks so 😉😻 8y
Simona ....posh😉 8y
Libby1 @Simona - 😻 8y
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