The Landscape Of Love by Sally Beauman
'If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing - Maisie's maze - and I hate it. I need to be informed ...' The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. But is Maisie's description of a summer idyll all it seems? This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change. The winter of 1991, in London: the now-famous portrait of the three sisters features in a major retrospective. Daniel Nunn, haunted by the vanished England of his childhood, obsessed by the three sisters and newly determined to understand what happened that last summer, pursues the ghosts of his past.
'..bold and clever...evocative and compulsive...' E. Buchan 'Once you start reading a Beauman book, you can't put it down, as Rebecca's Tale attests...while both du Maurier and Beauman are great storytellers, Beauman really is the better prose writer' L.Grant 'Passionate, vivid, elusive...as compelling as the original. ...a real achievement' Joanna Trollope. 'Compelling, absorbing, captivating, haunting - (her) most ambitious and imaginative so far' E. Showalter
Sally Beauman read English at Girton College, Cambridge. She worked as a journalist in America and Britain before beginning to write fiction. She is the author of six previous novels, including the acclaimed Rebecca's Tale.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316729420 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316729426 |
| Title | The Landscape Of Love |
| Author | Sally Beauman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2005-01-20 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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