Great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin (1964), grew up in London, New York and Brussels. “The Mathematics of Love” is the first novel that she began writing after she had two children. 1819. Stephen Fairhurst, crippled at the Battle of Waterloo, returns to his estate Kersey Hall. He tries to forget the horrors of the war, retaining only the memories of his secret tragic love... In the hot summer of 1976, fifteen-year-old Anna comes to visit her uncle at a rural school, which is located on the territory of an old estate. Here two men enter her life: photojournalist Theo, passion for whom flares up in her with incredible force, and Stephen Fairhurst - in letters from a century and a half ago... An incredibly touching story about an amazing connection between the past and the future, in which there is a place for war and the pain of loss, for ardent passion and the redemptive power of love.