A woman and her husband - love. Another woman - a second, secret love. Love of a son for his mother, love between brother and sister. Infatuation as a distraction to a man on his deathbed. In her new novel Margriet de Moor shows the love in her incalculable figures: of sincere affection to all-consuming passion. With a sensitivity ongeèevenaarde she outlines schitterends that love can cause, while its destructive power, the violence and bloodlust that heartbreak can generate in a human. How well her characters really do mean it, they are without exception subject to the power of love, which is many times larger than their own. "Mâelodie d'amour 'is a subtle, playful novel, the tone is kept consistently lighthearted despite the often violent events.