EmmaDarwin's debut novel, The Mathematics of Love, is probably the only bookever to be nominated for both the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book and theRomantic Novelists' Association Book of the Year, among other prizes. Hersecond novel, A Secret Alchemy, was a Sunday Times bestseller;her most recent book, This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin, is amemoir of disastrously failing to write fiction about her famous ancestor'sfamily. She currently teaches for Oxford University and Goldsmiths, mentorswriters, and is the author of Get Started in Writing Historical Fictionand her well-known blog, This Itch of Writing. She grew up in London -with interludes in Manhattan and Brussels, where her lifelong love of PieterBruegel the Elder was born - and still lives there.

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH NOVEMBERIt is a joy to be immersed in Emma Darwin's historicalfiction. Antonia Senior, The Times The novel is a profound exploration of humanity, love,brotherhood, vocation, loss and reconciliation. It is undoubtedly an astoundingachievement. Carol McGrath, The Historical Novel Society Emma Darwin... proves conclusively that she is a richchronicler of the human condition. Barry Forshaw

EmmaDarwin's debut novel, The Mathematics of Love, is probably the only bookever to be nominated for both the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book and theRomantic Novelists' Association Book of the Year, among other prizes. Hersecond novel, A Secret Alchemy, was a Sunday Times bestseller;her most recent book, This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin, is amemoir of disastrously failing to write fiction about her famous ancestor'sfamily. She currently teaches for Oxford University and Goldsmiths, mentorswriters, and is the author of Get Started in Writing Historical Fictionand her well-known blog, This Itch of Writing. She grew up in London -with interludes in Manhattan and Brussels, where her lifelong love of PieterBruegel the Elder was born - and still lives there.

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH NOVEMBERIt is a joy to be immersed in Emma Darwin's historicalfiction. Antonia Senior, The Times The novel is a profound exploration of humanity, love,brotherhood, vocation, loss and reconciliation. It is undoubtedly an astoundingachievement. Carol McGrath, The Historical Novel Society Emma Darwin... proves conclusively that she is a richchronicler of the human condition. Barry Forshaw

EmmaDarwin's debut novel, The Mathematics of Love, is probably the only bookever to be nominated for both the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book and theRomantic Novelists' Association Book of the Year, among other prizes. Hersecond novel, A Secret Alchemy, was a Sunday Times bestseller;her most recent book, This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin, is amemoir of disastrously failing to write fiction about her famous ancestor'sfamily. She currently teaches for Oxford University and Goldsmiths, mentorswriters, and is the author of Get Started in Writing Historical Fictionand her well-known blog, This Itch of Writing. She grew up in London -with interludes in Manhattan and Brussels, where her lifelong love of PieterBruegel the Elder was born - and still lives there.

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH NOVEMBERIt is a joy to be immersed in Emma Darwin's historicalfiction. Antonia Senior, The Times The novel is a profound exploration of humanity, love,brotherhood, vocation, loss and reconciliation. It is undoubtedly an astoundingachievement. Carol McGrath, The Historical Novel Society Emma Darwin... proves conclusively that she is a richchronicler of the human condition. Barry Forshaw