Cold Heaven

Cold Heaven is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. It was published in 1983. Plot The novel is set in Nice, New York and Carmel, California. The plot concerns a lapsed Catholic, Marie Davenport, who is about to leave her husband Alex for her lover, Daniel, when Alex is apparently killed in a boating accident and then seems to have risen from the dead. The novel details Marie's dilemma in confronting this apparent miracle. Autobiographical reference Alex's accident references an event in Moore's own life. In 1956, he was hit by a motorboat while swimming in a lake in Canada and sustained multiple fractures to his skull.