“That rare thing, a book that works on every conceivable level. A real achievement … Remarkable.“ – The Times

“An addictive, engaging foray into historical fiction that leaves the reader believing in the art of perspective and the redemptive power of love.“ – Daily Express

It is 1819 and Stephen Fairhurst wants only to forget the horrors of Waterloo and remember the great and secret love he lost.

But, despite his friendship with the clever Lucy Durward, he cannot tell her about the darkness in his past. In the summer of 1976 the teenaged Anna, hot, bored and lonely in the Suffolk countryside, becomes entangled in two men’s lives: Theo, a photographer in exile, and the forgotten Stephen Fairhurst.

As Stephen retraces his old steps through Napoleon’s Europe, Anna life, too, changes forever. Acclaimed, gripping and extraordinarily moving, The Mathematics of Love is a powerful novel of war and suffering, the heat of passion and the redemptive power of love.