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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.

''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 . . .

A Month in the Country

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 14 August 2014
      ISBN-13 9780241972038
      978-0241972038
      ISBN-10 0241972035
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Romance

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 . . .

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