- Series: Penguin Essentials #33
- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780241972038
- Length: 112 pages
- Dimensions: 181mm x 8mm x 111mm
- Weight: 68g
- Price: £9.99
A Month in the Country
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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.
'One of the best books I've ever read' RICHARD OSMAN
'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 . . .
'Tender and elegant' GUARDIAN
'A brief, lovely homage to the natural world' SAMANTHA HARVEY, BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF ORBITAL
'One of the best books I've ever read' RICHARD OSMAN
'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 . . .
'Tender and elegant' GUARDIAN
'A brief, lovely homage to the natural world' SAMANTHA HARVEY, BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF ORBITAL
