Product Description

Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local café (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.

This quite a nice story about a girl with chronic OCD who falls in love. I did find the details of the counting and the various routines of Grace's life rather stressful but I think it's because I had a 'lite' version of the 'condition' when I was younger and it kind of brought it back! Still a nice story though, and otherwise an easy read.

Taking along to my little birthday gathering at the Red Lion on Saturday 23rd April :-) I'll leave this on the OBCZ table if no one else takes it home with them.