Tanzie is a math prodigy, and has been recommended for a special school, but even though Jess is working two jobs, there is no way she can swing the tuition. Nick has closed himself off in response, and Jess hasn’t been able to break through to him. He is being bullied relentlessly by schoolmates who torment him both psychologically and physically. Nicky is smart and kind but he is different – a bit Goth. Nicky is the son of Jess’s ex and his ex-wife, but Jess loves Nicky and is the best hope he has for a good family. Jessica (“Jess”) Thomas, 27, is a single mom who lives outside London and is struggling to raise two kids – Tanzie, who is 10, and Nicky, who is 16. In this book, a blended group of people – two adults and two kids with different parents – come together and become something more they become a family. You don’t have to know a thing about math or physics or emergence theory to love this newest book by Jojo Moyes, but if you do, it enriches the experience, since Moyes takes the idea of emergence theory and turns it into a love story.Īs one of the characters in the book explains, according to the theory of emergence, there are systems in which the sum of a number can be different than just an accumulation of “one plus one.” At some point, adjacent bodies start affecting each other in such a way that a new entity emerges that can’t be anticipated by looking at each part alone.
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