# An Inventory of Heaven

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- Book: [An Inventory of Heaven](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-feaver/an-inventory-of-heaven) ([An Inventory of Heaven.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-feaver/an-inventory-of-heaven.md))
- Authors: [Jane Feaver](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-feaver)
- Publisher: corsair
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8033-023-5
- Published: 2012-05-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.