Gifted (novel)

Gifted

First edition
Author	Nikita Lalwani
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	2007
Media type	Print, Audio & eBook
Pages	288
ISBN

Gifted is the debut novel by author Nikita Lalwani longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. It was first published in 2007 by Viking.

The novel is set in the 1980s Cardiff where maths prodigy Rumi Vasi grows up with her Hindu parents. Subjected to her father's strict tutoring he is determined that she be accepted by Oxford University at the age of only fifteen. But on starting University she finds it hard to adapt to her new-found freedom.