The Mathematics of Love
Description
The Mathematics of Love is a poignant chronicle of two people, separated by centuries, whose lives--amazingly, impossibly--become interwoven in a brilliant tapestry of tragedy, memory, and time. Following alternate but intimately connected stories--of a curious, promiscuous teenager in her season of exile and awakening in the English countryside in 1976, and a nineteenth-century soldier damaged on the fields of Waterloo, struggling to find his way back to life with the help of a compassionate, extraordinary woman--Emma Darwin's breathtaking narrative brilliantly evokes the horrors of war, the pain of loss, the heat of passion, and the enduring power of love.
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About the Author
Emma Darwin studied drama and theatre arts at Birmingham University and then worked in academic publishing before turning to photography and writing. A great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin and his wife, Emma Wedgwood, Emma now lives in London with her two children. The author of The Mathematics of Love, she is finishing a Ph.D. in creative writing at Goldsmiths College.
Reviews
"The two stories that Darwin tells here add up to something hauntingly beautiful."--Washington Post Book World
"This is that rare thing, a book that works on every conceivable level...An uncommonly good read...A real achievement."--London Times
"A novel rapturous with the joys of history...Anna's story is told in a wonderfully convincing, brittle, adolescent voice."--The Australian
"An ambitious beginning, as much a ghost story as a romance."--The Observer
"A convincing and involving read. A book to lose yourself in this summer."--Daily Mail (London)
