An Inventory of Heaven
'Supremely Compelling. '
$22.76
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2013
Summary
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: shoul…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780338750 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780338759 |
| Author: | Jane Feaver |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 165mm x 23mm |
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Accomplished in every way, this novel is a true delight.– The Independent
More intimate than Thomas Hardy, and as perceptive too, about the countryside and country people, Jane Feaver is a supremely compelling chronicler of rural isolation.
Accomplished in every way, this novel is a true delight. - The IndependentPitch perfect….Most memorable is Feaver’s language - burnished and sturdily poetic with a saving comic streak - ObserverJane Feaver has proved an expert at creating a sense of place … tender, imaginative prose - Sunday Herald.It s wonderful. The Inventory of Heaven is a revitalising exception to all the grim, mannered, clever books I read over the summer. The observation, the ear, the breadth of imaginative sympathy all these reminded me why it s worth reading fiction.About The Author
Jane Feaver
Jane Feaver is a novelist and short story writer. According to Ruth (Harvill Secker, 2007), was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the Dimplex Prize; Love Me Tender (Harvill Secker, 2009) was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. After twenty years working in the South West, Jane now lives in Edinburgh.
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