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