I picked this one up from my college library as part of an end of year book-binge. I first heard about addition on one of the veryvery few occasiions that i watched richard and Judy, and for some reason it stuck with me.
Addition is about Grace - a 35yr old woman who has an obsession with counting everything; the measurements of her walls, the number of poppy seeds on her daily slice of orange cake, the ratio of her hand, the number of steps it takes to get her anywhere, the number of bites it takes to eat something... it has got to the state where she is unable to work and her whole life seems to revolve around the numbers. Then, when she meets seamus o'reiley everything changes and the numbers start to slip away. this book is in ways light hearted, in others quite serious. It is about a young woman coming to terms with her self and learning to live life again.
This book was enjoyable to read; happy but serious and although other reviewers have found faults, nothing glaring stood in the way of my enjoyment of it. I'd say give it a go if you have an afternoon spare and fancy something a little quirky and different.
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