The Mathematics of Love: A Novel [Paperback]

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.

The Mathematics of Loveis 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.

A novel rapturous with the joys of history...Annas 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

This is that rare thing, a book that works on every conceivable level...An uncommonly good read...A real achievement. -London Times

A convincing and involving read. A book to lose yourself in this summer. -Daily Mail (London)

Emma Darwins prose is golden and convincing. The book is an addictive, l“Q