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 slice of orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take to finish it. Grace counts everything, because numbers hold the world together. And she needs to keep an eye on how they're doing.

Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (also a 19, with the sexiest hands Grace has ever seen) thinks she might be better off without the counting. If she could hold down a job, say. Or open her kitchen cupboards without conducting an inventory, or make a sandwich containing an unknown number of sprouts.

Grace's problem is that Seamus doesn't count.
Her other problem is...he does.

Addition is a fabulous debut novel. Grace is witty, flirtatious and headstrong. She's not a bit sentimental but even so, she may be about to lose track of the number of ways she can fall in love.

Toni Jordan is an award-winning, internationally best-selling novelist. Her debut novel Addition (Text, 2008) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Jordan's subsequent novels include Fall Girl (Text, 2010), Nine Days (Text, 2012), Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (Text, 2016) and The Fragments (Text, 2018). Her most recent novels are Dinner with the Schnabels and Prettier if She Smiled More. Toni has been a columnist for the Age and her short stories and articles have appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Courier Mail, the Herald Sun, the Australian and the Monthly. She lives in Melbourne.

'A stylish, witty and moving love story.' Sigrid Thornton

'Bringing a quirky humour and a sympathetic view of diversity to his story, the author sustains the momentum to the end of this engaging romantic comedy.' The Times

'This is a winning love story, a sorbet for tired souls.' Age

'Jordan's voice is distinctive, refreshing and very Australian. Her debut novel is juicy and funny...this is a gem.' Sydney Morning Herald