Jane Feaver – författare

''One of the best novels I''ve read in years: obsessive, intimate and very funny'' Blake Morrison, Author of Two Sisters''Stunning . . . it almost feels transgressive'' Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail''One of the most startling novels I''ve read this year'' Frances Wilson, TLS''This book is brilliant - brave, truthful and intelligent'' Wendy Cope''Funny, philosophical, sobering and wise, Crazy is crammed with insight and laced with great sentences'' Claire Kilroy, Guardian''I will break him; he will break me, and when we are broken, we will be even, and then we can be put back together again''Jane has been accustomed to clever, undemonstrative men. So when, as a young woman, she meets Ardu, she is instantly bewitched by his intellect and detachment. What starts as a crush turns into something far darker, an all-consuming obsession, from which, years later, she is still reeling.Crazy is a work of autofiction, a startling story of obsessive love, addiction, motherhood and work. It is a reckoning with fiction and with truth: how these things play out on the body; what it takes for a woman to write out her own life.

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.