The Mathematics of Love

by Emma Darwin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061140279
• ISBN13: 9780061140273
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

I loved this book

I really liked reading this book. I enjoyed both of the timelines-- the teenager in the 1970s who has grown up a little too fast for her own good, coming to terms with her family past and future; and the ex-soldier in 1819, trying to build his future, but discovering he also must face his past before he can truly move on. I loved the ongoing ties between the timelines. It isn't a simple read, but I found it worthwhile.