The SOLITUDE of PRIME NUMBERS

Giordano, Paola. The SOLITUDE of PRIME NUMBERS. Penguin, 2008.

Third book I've read for the Ladies Meet Up Club. A first novel by a young Italian writer about the coming-of-age of two young people who experienced trauma in childhood. The impact of home life and trauma on adolescents, and on how it may delay adolescence well into the so-called "adult" years. Alice was injured in a ski accident. Mattia lost his sister. Alice is obsessed with photography and is anorexic. Mattia is obsessed with numbers. Set in Italy and in Denmark? where Mattia goes to university and stays to work. 

So glad it is not about numbers, and that the ending is not sentimental.