HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE (WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON) (PB)

In 1972, workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania were digging the foundations for a new development when they found a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side through the 1920s and '30s. This novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community - heaven and earth - that sustain us.