New York Review Books Classics A Month in the Country, (Paperback)

from Jargoneered

Short novel about a young man uncovering a fresco in a village church in the summer of 1920. Tom Birkin, as an old man looks back to the time when he was a WWI survivor with a nervous facial tick a...

from ajungherr

A splendid tale about a man who had fallen out of the world and who over the course of an English summer climbed back again.

from wandering_star

1920, Yorkshire. A man called Birkin arrives in a small village in the pouring rain, and tramps up to the local church, where he beds down. It turns out that he has been asked to restore a medieval...

from RidgewayGirl

Set just after the end of WWI, A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr is Tom Birkin's memories of a summer he spent in the northern village of Oxgodby and how it helped him to recover from the war. Bi...

from NeilDalley

Superb. This is such a wonderfully atmospheric book and evokes a forgotten world of summers long ago. When I started reading it the sun was shining and it fitted the mood of the book so well. The b...