A Month in the Country
Author: Carr, J L
ISBN: 9780241972038
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 22 Oct 2014
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Plt;bPgt;P#39;That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.P#39;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt; Plt;BRPgt;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 . . .
ISBN: 9780241972038
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 22 Oct 2014
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Plt;bPgt;P#39;That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.P#39;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt; Plt;BRPgt;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 . . .
