In a climate where ‘publishing is all’ for the academic, and particularly the early career academic, and where, as a result, so much can reach the shelves of the bookshop (virtual or actual) that might have benefited from longer periods of reflection, it is a pleasure indeed to encounter a book such as Heaven and earth. It exudes the assurance of a scholar entirely at ease with the subtleties and complexities of the subject matter and achieves that most difficult of aims: communicating the theological niceties of a past society not entirely blessed with a wealth of evidence relating to matters ecclesiastical and theological. This, however, is not all: it manages to recover, as far as possible, the multi-variant ways in which the theology of death and resurrection might have been understood by the general populace of Anglo-Saxon England, and not just those clerics responsible for its propagation. To this end it examines in almost forensic detail the widest possible range of literary and linguistic evidence available to us: Latin and Old English; charters, wills, homilies, poetry, hagiography, the records of church councils, histories and letters are all brought to bear, the limitations of each set out, and the potential of each exploited to the fullest extent. Where possible, this extraordinary body of documentary and literary textual evidence is further offset against archaeological and art historical evidence, although this latter body of evidence is perhaps not as fully explored as it might have been. This observation is, however, a minor quibble in the light of the truly impressive scholarly accomplishment presented between the covers of this book, its arguments articulated in a clear and lucid prose style, and coherently arranged in five chapters, set out according to the tenets of the Christian faith articulated in the Nicene Creed: ‘I Believe in One God’; ‘Creator of All Things, Visible and Invisible’; ‘Who Will Come Again to Judge the Living and the Dead’; ‘The Communion of Saints and the Forgiveness of Sins’; ‘The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting’. This is a publication that deserves to find a place on the bookshelf of all who study the society and faith of the past, and will undoubtedly become a ‘classic’. The author is to be commended unreservedly and it is hoped that she will continue to enlighten her readership in a similarly fruitful manner in the future.