An Inventory of Heaven

Jane Feaver

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.

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