“You are the arithmetic average of the five people with whom you communicate the most,” says a young man he doesn’t know to Allegre Bird. These words hurt and hurt the girl: do these people even exist in her life? Allegra, who everyone calls Freckles, is 24 years old, she grew up with a single father and has never met her mother, the Spanish beauty Carmencita. Maybe her mother should be one of these five? Between the rugged Atlantic coast of Ireland, where her father and old friends remain, and the wealthy suburbs of Dublin, where Freckles lives and works but still feels like an outsider, she searches for her runaway mother, searches for “her tribe,” and most importantly, searches for herself. . Told in the bright, lively voice of the main character, this is an unforgettable story about human relationships, about kinship by blood and spirit, about friendship and about becoming yourself - a poignant and touching coming-of-age novel.