The summer of 1967, in the heart of ruralSuffolk: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