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A review by celiaedf12
The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
4.0
I was kind of surprised by the varied reviews of this book on Goodreads - I guess you either love or hate it.
The book is two interwoven stories - Anna, in 70s England staying with her uncle at his country house, Kersey Hall, and Stephen, a Waterloo veteran who inherits Kersay Hall after the war. Anna, a precocious teenager lonely in the empty hall seeks the company of Theo & Eva, photographers who begin to teach her about cameras. Stephen corresponds with Lucy Derwood, an artist, and a close friendship forms between them which is tested when Stephen must come to terms with his past.
It's a lovely lush story and great to listen to, especially Stephen's correspondence with Lucy. I loved Anna learning about photography and playing with light, but I was kind of ambivalent about where Anna's relationship with Theo went - and I wasn't sure that it resolved enough for me to be happy with it.
I picked up the book because of Emma Darwin's fantastic blog on writing, and I'll definitely be looking for her next novel.
The book is two interwoven stories - Anna, in 70s England staying with her uncle at his country house, Kersey Hall, and Stephen, a Waterloo veteran who inherits Kersay Hall after the war. Anna, a precocious teenager lonely in the empty hall seeks the company of Theo & Eva, photographers who begin to teach her about cameras. Stephen corresponds with Lucy Derwood, an artist, and a close friendship forms between them which is tested when Stephen must come to terms with his past.
It's a lovely lush story and great to listen to, especially Stephen's correspondence with Lucy. I loved Anna learning about photography and playing with light, but I was kind of ambivalent about where Anna's relationship with Theo went - and I wasn't sure that it resolved enough for me to be happy with it.
I picked up the book because of Emma Darwin's fantastic blog on writing, and I'll definitely be looking for her next novel.