Inventory of Heaven

By Jane Feaver

Book Overview

As a young woman, Mavis Gaunt leaves post-war London to make a new life for herself in rural Devon, where she spent a few blissful months of her childhood as an evacuee. Living alone in the verdant hamlet of Shipleigh, she believes she's found a heaven on earth - until a violent tragedy brings trouble to paradise, and turns Mavis's idyllic solitude into a tormented, guarded isolation.

Decades later, the arrival of a newcomer to the village forces Mavis to make a final reckoning: should she take her horrible secret to the grave? Or, should she summon up her ghosts and, in doing so, lay them to rest? An Inventory of Heaven is a lyrical and intimate meditation on the rural life, falling in love and the long passing of time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780338759
• ISBN13: 9781780338750
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Constable & Robinson
• Length: 345 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 21 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary