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House of Windows | Alexia Casale

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'The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.' Robert Louis Stevenson Nick hates it when people call him a genius. Sure, he's going to Cambridge University aged 15, but he says that's just because he works hard. And, secretly, he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic father. Not that his strategy is working. When he arrives at Cambridge, he finds the work hard and socialising even harder. Until, that is, he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose...

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I finished reading this today, and it left me wanting more. While I can't say I share the author's love for Cambridge architecture (and started skimming the descriptions somewhere around the midpoint of the book), I am very soft for found families.

I very much wish to have a window into their life after the book ends, just to catch glimpses of how their relations progress, and just the general domesticity of living together and growing closer

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A tale of a young, exceptional mathematician. With a complicated family life (Dad who would rather work than spend time with him, a mother who suffered from mental illness), he is thrust into Cambridge at the tender age of 15. How will he cope in a place where drunken bonding (not allowed!), struggling with coursework (he doesn't) and living in halls (living at home) builds relationships? Excellent story, showing that you can CHOOSE your family.

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