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Jane Feaver

Jane Feaver is a novelist and short story writer. According to Ruth (Harvill Secker, 2007), was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the Dimplex Prize; Love Me Tender (Harvill Secker, 2009) was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize; her latest novel is An Inventory of Heaven (Corsair, 2012). Jane is a lecturer in creative writing at Exeter University.

Spring 2015

Spider

By Jane Feaver

You weren’t supposed to take calls in the shop, but, because Cara had worked there ages, and was only part-time now anyway, she’d answered.