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.
| ISBN: | 9781780338750 |
| Publication date: | 2nd May 2013 |
| Author: | Jane Feaver |
| Publisher: | Corsair an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 345 pages |
| Primary Genre | Family Drama |
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