An Inventory Of Heaven

Feaver, Jane

3.09

46 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 1407936484 ISBN 13: 9781407936482

Publisher: Soundings Audio Books, 2013

Mavis Gaunt spent time in the village of Shipleigh, as a wartime evacuee, finding it a heavenly retreat. But it is not until her twenties that she decides to head back. Frances, Tom and Robert Upcott are reclusive siblings from a local farm. When Mavis returns to the village, she and Frances strike up an unlikely friendship. But a tragic sequence of events is set to turn her heaven into a living hell. Mavis is 70 when Eve and her young son Archie turn up in the village. In revealing the truth about what happened, she is able to answer Eve's questions about her own family and, in summoning them, Mavis can finally begin to lay her own ghosts to rest.

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About the Author:

Jane Feaver was born in Durham in 1964. After reading English at university she worked at the Pitt Rivers Museum and then in the Poetry Department at Faber and Faber. In 2001 she moved to Devon with her daughter.

Review:

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. -- Sean O'Brien Jane Feaver has proved an expert at creating a sense of place ... tender, imaginative prose * Sunday Herald. * Pitch perfect....Most memorable is Feaver's language - burnished and sturdily poetic with a saving comic streak * Observer * 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. -- Michael Morpurgo

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