Landscape Comes and Goes Author:Elizabeth Gunn The circumstances in which this English novel is grounded have a familiar ring: Jessica Gore, the protagonist/narrator is a...novelist writing a book that she hopes will reward her with money and fame and work magic on her life. Nothing is going well: the winter is severe and endless, the future vaguely ominous, her scholarly husband seems to be... more » occupied less with his books than with the aptly named Suzette French, wanton and living just down the road. But things are not what they seem; the writer has been making a story of her life. Reality is less lurid. Her husband is not a philanderer; Suzette is not a vamp but a bit of a tippler soon to become a properly married lady. Jessica and her steadfast husband will make plans for living in the warmer south of France."" - Publishers Weekly.« less