Damages - this is an unavoidable word in almost any kind of contractual dispute, and is of critical importance to the practitioner as it usually determines whether a suit should even be commenced. Where damages are concerned, it is more often than not a question of "how much?" Indeed, there are many species of damages such as compensatory, nominal, punitive and liquidated damages, and of all species of damages, the calculation of compensatory damages is perhaps the most complex. A large bulk of Kramer's The Law of Contract Damages (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014) is therefore devoted to addressing this question.