A Month in the Country
A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of...
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A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on that idyl
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Folio Society
Pages no: 136
Edition language: English
A four-star book which has afforded me five-star reading pleasure: a very simple, very well written story with an ending which feels real.It is a very low-key novel about what can make a shattered person reasonably whole again. Here, Tom Birkin, an ex-soldier 'pushed ... through the mincer' of WW I ...
Not sure if I will ever get back to this fine work for a second reading, but it sure was enjoyable. There may be a review forthcoming, but perhaps not. Time is at a premium these days.
New Review! Great War survivor, glorious prose, life-changing moments. http://tinyurl.com/psdloo3 Like the Bonnard on the cover, it's a richly colored, simply rendered, and deeply satisfying artwork. It's not flashy or overwrought. It is elegant and luxurious and I am very glad that I read it.
Somehow Carr captures that golden feeling of the prose of the early 20th century. 'A Month in the Country' is set after WWI, and the protagonist has been affected by combat experience, but his activities, and the shelter he finds in the small village, while restoring a medieval church painting are o...
A gorgeous eulogy for the perfect SummerBirkin, a damaged World War One veteran, is employed to a find and restore a mural in a village church, whilst another veteran is employed to look for a grave beyond the churchyard walls. The writer looks back 58 years later, and as an old man, on his idyllic...
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