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03/07/2006, 12:52 PM Gilly Darcy Joined on 03/07/2006 Posts 1 Section featured in Saturday 1st July. T o review The Landscape of Love Hello, I am a new member and would like a copy of the text that ran in Saturday`s paper. If anybody could help me I would be most grateful. Regards Gilly    Report

03/07/2006, 1:39 PM Web Team - Vince Joined on 07/08/2003 Archant Norfolk Posts 952 Re: Section featured in Saturday 1st July. T o review The Landscape of Love From Saturday's EDP: Jeff Taylor introduces this month’s EDP Book Club choice, The Landscape of Love by Sally Beauman Sally Beauman was born in Devon and read English Literature at Girton College Cambridge, graduating in 1966, after which she lived in America for three years travelling extensively including time in the southern states, which provided much background for her first book Destiny. After working for the New York Magazine she returned to England and worked as a critic and reporter for various newspapers and magazines and became the youngest editor of Queen magazine. After the birth of her son she returned to full-time writing, completing the definitive history of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 (her husband is the actor Alan Howard), and then wrote Destiny, which has been described as ‘a study of a materialist woman in a materialist world’. Destiny was followed by Dark Angel, the study of the decline of a Victorian family, and then three linked thrillers: Lovers and Lies, Danger Zone and Sextet. These were followed by Rebecca’s Tale, a novel that revisited and re-imagined Daphne Du Maurier’s Manderley. Her most recent book is The Landscape of Love, which is set initially in 1967 and told through the journal of 13-year-old Maisie Mortland who lives with her two sisters, her mother and grandfather in an old Suffolk abbey. During the summer of 1967 they have their portrait painted and in 1991 the now famous portrait is shown in London. The portrait inspires Daniel Nunn, who as a young boy in 1967 was idolised by Maisie, to return to the Abbey to find out what happened during the idyllic summer. Lisa Alladine has written: “Sticking to what she does best, Beauman drags the reader into breathless melodrama. Madness, suicide, illegitimacy, more infidelities than an episode of Footballers’ Wives, terminal illness and even murder – and that’s not including the medieval nuns… But is she a ‘serious’ writer? Who cares? She is an enjoyable one.” Sally Beauman’s The Landscape of Love is available at Jarrold’s book department in Norwich priced at £6.99 as part of a ‘three for two offer’ or it can bought on its own for a pound less.    Report

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