A Month in the Country

A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country 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 . . .

About the author

J. L. Carr

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: J. L. Carr, Carr J. L.
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.08.2014
• EAN: 9780241972038
• ISBN: 978-0-241-97203-8
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Essential Penguin; Penguin Essentials; Penguin Essentials; Essential Penguin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Historical / General, History, Adult & contemporary romance, Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, contemporary romance, HISTORY / Military / General, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)