★ Rights sold to Italy!
★ Head off, heart on: a young computer scientist and the unpredictability of love.
★ English sample available.

Charlie, 29, loves numbers, formulas and codes, and she’s pretty tough. As a computer scientist at a university, she also has to be tough to assert herself against the male competition. Then her younger sister announces that she is engaged. And Charlie’s world turns upside down: marriage, getting down on one knee, a ring, all the bells and whistles. She wants this too, even though she actually despises these clichés – or does she?

Suddenly she starts questioning everything: her job at the university, where her male colleagues have made her life difficult for years, the overtime which she constantly takes on, and even her long-term boyfriend David – are the two really still living together, or just next to one another? On the search for answers, Charlie works on doing what she as a computer scientist knows best: Collecting data, categorizing, analyzing. But is there an algorithm for love? Then Tobi turns up, who seems to be perfect for her – except for the fact that he is also David’s boss. The butterflies in Charlie’s stomach do not follow any mathematical rules – and cause her system to crash…

Marilena Sommer, born in 1993, is a cultural scientist and lives in Cologne and sometimes in the U.S. When she’s not researching why robots can also be intelligent, she’s either at the stadium cheering on the Cologne football club, sorting through her huge bookshelf or fridge magnet collection, or sitting at her desk to write her own books.