Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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'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, in the heart of rural Suffolk: thirteen-year-old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a mediaeval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. 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. Beguiling, complex, hauntingly sad and often wonderfully funny, The Landscape of Love grips from the first page.