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 . . .
ISBN: | 9780241972038 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Books |
Published date: | 14 Aug 2014 |
DEWEY: | 823.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Sales rank: | 17467 |
Number of pages: | 92 |
Weight: | 72g |
Height: | 182mm |
Width: | 111mm |
Spine width: | 8mm |