A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr

A Month in the Country
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 August 2014
Pages
112
ISBN
9780241972038

A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr

‘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 …

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