Written about love in the North (5)
I believe the answer is:
novel
'written' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'love in the north' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'love' is 'ovel' which is located in the answer.
'north' could be 'n' (abbreviation) and 'n' is found in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'about' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for novel that I've seen before include "work of Dickens?" , "A work of fiction of new kind" , "Rebecca?" , "New sort of fiction?" , "New and intriguing" .)