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The few years Mavis Gaunt spent in the village of Shipleigh, Devon, as a wartime evacuee - away from London and her parents' loveless marriage - were sufficient for her to conceive of the place as a heavenly retreat. But it is not until her twenties, with nothing left to keep her in the city, that Mavis 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.As they grow closer, Mavis is drawn into the sequestered life of the farm and begins at last to enjoy a sense of belonging. But a tragic sequence of events one winter's day is set to turn her heaven into a living hell.
Mavis is seventy when Eve and her young son Archie turn up unexpectedly in the village. The tentative friendship that develops between them prompts Mavis to put together a collection of memories and treasures: her inventory. In revealing the truth of what happened at the Upcott farm, she is able to answer Eve's questions about the past, and in summoning them, finally to lay her own ghosts to rest.
Praise for Jane Feaver's work:
'Unflinchingly examines the tensions of intimate family life...will strike deep chords of recognition in the many readers she is sure to win.' Carol Anne Duffy.
'This is a unique voice' - Philip Hensher.
'Pitch perfect....Most memorable is Feaver's language - burnished and sturdily poetic with a saving comic streak'Observer.
'Extraordinary intelligence and charm...also extremely funny'.Independent
'Jane Feaver has proved an expert at creating a sense of place ... tender, imaginative prose'Sunday Herald.
`she has a...way of teasing out the comedy of people struggling to deal with..."the long littleness of life"'The Times.
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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.
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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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- PublisherCorsair
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1780330006
- ISBN 13 9781780330006
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages310
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