'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 paintin...'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.