Emma Darwin

Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death...The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years. In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses: the power struggles and passion that lay behind their birth, the danger into which they fell, the profoundly moving days before their imprisonment, and the ultimate betrayal of their innocence.

Dos príncipes asesinados, una reina traicionada, un caballero que cabalga hacia una muerte segura... La historiadora Una Pryor, mientras hace frente a las dificultades del negocio familiar, una disti

Situada en dos tiempos distintos que Emma Darwin entrelaza con singular maestría, La aritmética del amor es una novela inolvidable de amor y guerra, de pasión y de pérdida, de fracaso y de búsqueda. Enviada en un caluroso verano a un aislado colegio rural, la adolescente Anna ira desvelando, a traves de viejas cartas y escritos, los secretos de su antiguo propietario, Stephen Fairhurst, a la vez que va creando el suyo propio. Tataranieta del celebre autor de El origen de las especies, Emma Darwin es una escritora privilegiada que aprovecha con maestria su interes por el arte dramatico, la narrativa y la historia. La aritmetica del amor supuso su brillante irrupcion en el terreno de la novela.

1819, Stephen Fairhurst, un veterano oficial británico de las guerras napoleónicas, regresa a su mansión de Kersey Hall, tras un periplo por España. Atormentado por el horror de los campos de batalla, solo le queda como refugio el recuerdo del amor secreto perdido en tierras vascas. 1976, Anna, una quinceañera desarraigada, de vida familiar inestable, es enviada en el caluroso verano a un sitio que parece lo mas opuesto posible a sus inquietudes: un colegio rural que dirige un tio suyo al que casi no conoce. Sus relaciones se limitaran a una abuela desequilibrada y a la pareja formada por Eva, una española, y Theo, un fotografo hungaro, que huyen de las respectivas dictaduras de sus paises. Acalorada, aburrida y sola, Anna acaba enredada en la vida presente de Theo y en la pasada de Stephen Fairhurst, el propietario de la casa ciento cincuenta años antes, a traves de sus cartas y escritos en los que describe sus pesadillas belicas y desamores a la inteligente y encantadora Lucy Durward. Mientras Anna desvela los secretos de Stephen, va creando el suyo propio. El nexo entre ambos son las vivencias celosamente enterradas en el pasado que les impiden vivir con serenidad sus respectivos presentes. La aritmetica del amor es una novela en dos tiempos. Emma Darwin maneja con una prosa elegante, y una notable agilidad narrativa, distintos registros linguisticos en aras de lograr la conjuncion del pasado y el presente. Las evocadoras descripciones de la campiña de Suffolk, los campos de batalla de Waterloo y las viejas ciudades vascas envuelven una deliciosa novela sobre el abandono, el dolor del alma y el contrapunto del amor como fuerza redentora y aliento vital.

The Mathematics of Love is Emmas first novel. Its due to be published in the UK in July by Headline Review, and by William Morrow in the USA early in 2007. Follow the link to read more about how it came about, and an extract. You can even find out why - though not exactly how - Emma brought her own great-great-great grandfather into it. Emma is more and more fascinated by the short story form, and has had success in several competitions with her stories. Follow the link for more about her short fiction, and to read an extract from her Bridport-Prize winning story, Maura s Arm.

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The Mathematics of Love is a poignant chronicle of two people, separated by centuries, whose livesamazingly, impossiblybecome interwoven in a brilliant tapestry of tragedy, memory, and time. Following alternate but intimately connected storiesof 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 womanEmma Darwins breathtaking narrative brilliantly evokes the horrors of war, the pain of loss, the heat of passion, and the enduring power of love.

Two murdered princes; a powerful queen betrayed; a nobleman riding towards his certain death...The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years. In a brilliant feat of historical daring, Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses: the power struggles and passion that lay behind their birth, the danger into which they fell, the profoundly moving days before their imprisonment, and the ultimate betrayal of their innocence. In A Secret Alchemy, three voices speak: that of Elizabeth Woodville, the beautiful widow of King Edward IV; of her brother Anthony, surrogate father to the doomed Prince Edward and his brother Dickon; and that of present-day historian Una Pryor. Orphaned, and herself brought up in a family where secrets and rivalries threaten her world, Unas experience of tragedy, betrayal and lost love help her unlock the long-buried secrets that led to the princes deaths. Weaving their stories together, Emma Darwin brilliantly evokes how the violence and glamour of past ages live on within our present.

From the Suffolk countryside to the old Basque towns of Spain, Emma Darwins unforgettable debut tells the astoundingly moving story of Stephen, a veteran of Waterloo, whose suffering and secret lost happiness is transformed by love. Gorgeously written, fascinating and engrossing, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE is a sexy, heartbreaking, glorious novel by a major new literary star.

Situada en dos tiempos distintos que Emma Darwin entrelaza con singular maestría, "La aritmética del amor" es una novela inolvidable de amor y guerra, de pasión y de pérdida, de fracaso y de búsqueda. Enviada en un caluroso verano a un aislado colegio rural, la adolescente Anna ira desvelando, a traves de viejas cartas y escritos, los secretos de su antiguo propietario, Stephen Fairhurst, a la vez que va creando el suyo propio. Tataranieta del celebre autor de El origen de las especies, Emma Darwin es una escritora privilegiada que aprovecha con maestria su interes por el arte dramatico, la narrativa y la historia. La aritmetica del amor supuso su brillante irrupcion en el terreno de la novela.