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' 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.
- ISBN10 1459672933
- ISBN13 9781459672932
- Publish Date 24 October 2013 (first published 17 May 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 April 2016
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint ReadHowYouWant
- Edition [Large Print]
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 424
- Language English