THE AWARD-WINNING MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Discover the heartbreakingly beautiful novel about
the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy. 'Surprising
intimate and deeply moving' John Boyne bestselling author of The Heart's Invisible Furies
'Mesmerising' Good Housekeeping A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only
be divided by itself or by one it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia also move
on their own axes alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alice's overbearing father
drove her first to a terrible skiing accident and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she
recognises a kindred spirit and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he
abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party and when he returned
she was nowhere to be found. These two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia's lives for
ever and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined. But then a
chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to
the surface. A meditation on loneliness and love The Solitude of Prime Numbers asks can we
ever truly be whole when we're in love with another? Praise for The Solitude of Prime
Numbers: 'Clear heartbreakingly precise prose the youngest ever winner of the prestigious
Premio Strega (the Italian Man Booker)... a stunning achievement' Daily Mail ' Very
accomplished... melancholic but strangely beautiful ' Guardian 'This astute aching
contemplation of solitude has a power to make us all feel a little less alone. A love story
told with astonishing perceptiveness and remarkable subtlety' Stefan Merrill Block author of
The Story of Forgetting 'Incredibly poetic and powerful exploring complex relationships
friendship and trauma' 5-star reader review 'Will break your heart' 5-star reader review
'[My] new favourite' 5-star reader review
