The Mapping of Love and Death

Jacqueline Winspear

Having read it

★★★☆☆

Readable but it didn’t half feel like a whodunnit-by-numbers that didn’t seem to have much creative flair, excitement or humorous characters to help lighten its mood. Maybe I missed its point(s), but just okay in the end, nothing to write home about!

A good passage

‘The map-maker is not only a mathematician, but an artist. He has to look at the earth and see what needs to be seen, then represent it in a way that means something – to a class, a sailor, a walker on the hills, the driver of a motor car, or those who orchestrate a battle. They have to look at that map and see a range of possibilities, not just one. Enormously important decisions hang on precise representations of what is before the commander – and as you know, most of the important decisions are made many miles away, by men in warm offices and with dry clothing. Everything rests on the fallibility of the map – and it takes more than science to do that job well.’