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A Month in the Country
  • Published: 22 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241972038
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $28.00
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A Month in the Country

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A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'

One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .
  • Published: 22 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241972038
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $28.00
Categories:

About the author

J L Carr

James Lloyd Carr, born 1912, attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in the North Riding and Castleford Secondary School. He died in Northamptonshire in 1994. His novel A Month in the Country won the Guardian Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a memorable film.
JLC

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Praise for A Month in the Country

Tender and elegant

Guardian

Unlike anything else in modern English Literature

Spectator

Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting

New Yorker

Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past

Penelope Fitzgerald

I wanted to write A Month in the Country in space - a brief, lovely homage to the natural world, pastoral writing about how deeply humans respond to our natural environments and the relationship between beauty and survival. In the end (I guess inevitably) the two books bore very little resemblance, but I don't think Orbital would exist without it

Samantha Harvery, Booker prize-winning author of Orbital

The book I keep coming back to, it's one of the best books I've ever read. I've never met anyone who didn't love it

Richard Osman