# A Month in the Country

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- Book: [A Month in the Country](https://www.bookquiver.com/jl-carr/a-month-in-the-country) ([A Month in the Country.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jl-carr/a-month-in-the-country.md))
- Authors: [J.L. Carr](https://www.bookquiver.com/jl-carr)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-203-8
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2014-08-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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 . . .