'Deeply intriguing.., the reader is right there in Suffolk, totally absorbed and longing to discover more, seduced by this most dynamic and alluring storyteller... [it is] impossible to read this book slowly, or to finish it without immediately starting again...The kinds of love that Beauman explores - sisterly and blood-brotherly, parental and protective, perverted and urgently sexual -can reach extremes of anguish and joy'

                ---Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday

'Beauman's writing is a blend of Joanna Trollope's insightful obser-vations into modem life and Rose Tremain's compelling storytelling. The shift between narrators is accomplished and unpredictable... It's a ghost story, a family saga and a tale of love. It's an exploration into how secrets come back to haunt us, how nothing is as it seems...Beauman's plotting compels you to keep reading'

               ---Louise France, Observer

The summer of 1967, in the heart of rural Suffolk: thirteen-year-old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a medieval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her elder sisters. In turn, Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she tells the story of her sisters and their lovers, of her village friend Daniel Nunn. Maisie describes evasions, betrayals, a lost England and a last summer - The Landscape of Love grips from the first page. Beguiling, complex, hauntingly sad and often wonderfully funny, it is a dazzling tour de force.

         PART I: FIVE OF CUPS

1 Summer Maisie, 1967

2 The boy in the glass

3 Ocean's daughter tells the cards

4 Mixed doubles

         PART II: THE LOVERS

5 Vigils

6 Ancestral voices

7 Starling

         PART III: THE TOWER

8 At Elde

         PART IV: RETROSPECTIVE

Correspondence

         PART V: THE HANGED MAN

10 Trinity Daniel

11 Squint

12 Look closely

13 At the Palazzo Julia

14 Reflections

15 The love/sex quandary

         PART VI: THE EMPRESS, REVERSED

16 Waiting for Godard

17 Nun Wood

18 What a piece of work...

19 Fall

         PART VII: TEN OF SWORDS

20 Corporal Body

21 Double trouble

22 What's God on?

23 Netherland

24 PVS

25 Fin

         PART VIII: NINE OF WANDS

26 Honest ghosts

27 Nick

28 Shredder

          PART IX: QUEEN OF CUPS

29 The way he did it

30 Dosta

31 Reading silence

32 Circles