Description
Discover this summer's most irregular love story . . .
Connie's smart. She's funny. But when it comes to love, she's only human.
As a brilliant mathematician with bright red hair - Connie's used to being considered a little unusual. But when she's recruited for a top-secret code-breaking project, nothing can prepare her for working with someone quite as peculiar as Luke.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan comes a charmingly quirky tale of love, friendship . . . and the possible obliteration of mankind.
'Quirky, funny and romantic' Sophie Kinsella
'A riotous cocktail of geeks' Matt Haig, author of The Humans
'It's not so often that I fall so completely in love with a book . . intelligent, funny, moving and beautiful' Rowan Coleman, author of The Memory Book
'Joyous, suspenseful, poignant, funny, heart-breaking, and above all else, a pleasure to read' Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe, Little Beach Street Bakery and Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams. As Jenny T. Colgan she has also written the Doctor Who tie-in novel Dark Horizons and several Doctor Who short stories.
About the Author
Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe and Little Beach Street Bakery. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, as was Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams, which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013. Under the Jenny T. Colgan pen name, she has also written the Doctor Who tie-in novel Dark Horizons and Doctor Who short stories Into the Nowhere, Long Way Down and All the Empty Towers. Jenny is married with three children and lives in London and France. For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter: @jennycolgan.
Reviews
Quirky, funny and romantic * Sophie Kinsella *
A riotous cocktail of geeks . . . Resistance really is futile * Matt Haig, author of THE HUMANS *
It's not very often that I fall in love so completely with book . . . Resistance is Futile is bright, charming, intelligent, funny, moving and beautiful, full of wonderful imagination and expert storytelling * Rowan Coleman, author of THE MEMORY BOOK *
Resistance is Futile manages to be so many things - joyous, suspenseful, poignant, funny, heart-breaking, and above all else, a pleasure to read * Claire North, author of THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST *
Resistance is Futile is funny, romantic and just the right side of geeky. Set phasers to 'fun'... * Danny Wallace, comedian, author and presenter *
A joyous genre mash-up that sweeps you off your feet at warp speed. Just amazing * M. R. Carey, author of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS *
A brilliant novel full of dark-edged humour about friendship and love and the strange forms they can take...some of them very strange. * Trisha Ashley, author of TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS *
[A] beach-friendly tale of romance among the mathematicians . . . Ms Colgan's considerable comic gifts ensure the fun is always on your wavelength. * BELFAST TELEGRAPH *
Book Information
ISBN 9780356505404
Author Jenny T. Colgan
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Orbit
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 280g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm * 24mm
