Julius Miles is a mathematical genius, but
he is hefty of frame, awkward with the opposite
sex and struggling to bring his existence
into balance. When he stumbles across
the girl next door naked and dead on her
Victorian tiles, he starts to unravel the one
equation that’s eluded him: that of his own
life. And so it is that with the most unlikely
of assistants – a transsexual Cupid with a
penchant for drugs – he embarks on a quest
to find the truth about love, death, family
and how, ultimately, you make your numbers
happy.
Witty, poignant, darkly comic,
The Happy
Numbers of Julius Miles is a triumph of linguistic
inventiveness and a timely tale of personal
relationships in a modern metropolis.
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"Combines East End gangsters, coincidence and parenthood to enjoyable effect… Keeble's sharp eye brings London's multicultural streets to life… this is a big-hearted, readable... book that whips you along merrily."
The Guardian
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