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Published: 04/05/2017
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Heartbreaking, life-affirming, brave and bold - Karen Gregory's debut is a completely different kind of love story.

'Is there anything that's concerning you?’ Felicity says. ‘College, home, boyfriends?' Though she's more or less smiling at this last one.

I don't smile. Instead, I feel my face go hot. Silence stretches as wide as an ocean.

When I look up, Felicity has this expression on her face like she's just seen Elvis. Slowly, she leans forward and in a gentle voice I've never heard her use before she says, 'Have you done a pregnancy test?'

When Hedda discovers she is pregnant, she doesn’t believe she could ever look after a baby. The numbers just don’t add up. She is young, and still in the grip of an eating disorder that controls every aspect of how she goes about her daily life. She’s even given her eating disorder a name – Nia. But as the days tick by, Hedda comes to a decision: she and Nia will call a truce, just until the baby is born. 17 weeks, 119 days, 357 meals. She can do it, if she takes it one day at a time …

Heartbreaking and hopeful by turns, Karen Gregory’s debut novel is a story of love, heartache and human resilience. And how the things that matter most can’t be counted.

Fans of Lisa Williamson, Sara Barnard and Sarah Crossan will fall in love with Karen's writing.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408882504
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 265 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Moving and thought-provoking - Irish Times

A heart-breaking, hopeful and highly-unusual debut - Metro, Imogen Russell Williams

Countless is written with empathy and deep compassion and we could all do with more of that. - The Bookbag, Jill Murphy

Insightful, authentic and profoundly moving …This is an important, impactful, mightily impressive debut about love, reaching out and taking one step at a time - LoveReading4Kids

Bold and brilliant - Books A Go Go

Everyone should read this - The Bibliophile Girl

An emotive story of love and choices ... easily one of the standout debuts of the year. - 100 Words or Less

I inhaled this book. I was emotionally involved from the very start and couldn’t bear to put it down … Though Countless is heartbreaking it is also full of heart, and it celebrates the power of finding your people and your self and the resilience to keep going. - Rhino Reads

The tonic for fluffy contemporaries - Heartful of Books

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“emotional”

what an engrossing, emotional and addictive read, Hedda is obsessed by numbers, she's 17 fallen pregnant and trying to get over an eating disorder which she has been completely defined by - she even gave it a... More

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“Raw, Honest and Gripping”

This is an emotional, at times heartbreakingly raw story of a young girl in the grips of anorexia who discovers she is pregnant.

Dealing with the realities of life as a young, single mother, as well as the myriad... More

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“An Important Read”

I’ve only read one book centred on Anorexia Nervosa before, and that was Wintergirls by Laurie Anderson. As soon as I saw that the Lovely Bloomsbury India was going to be releasing Countless here, I knew I HAD to read... More

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