{"product_id":"a-month-in-the-country-by-jl-carr","title":"A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr","description":"\u003cspan\u003eA sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War, J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald, author of Offshore, in Penguin Modern Classics. A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImmersed 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 the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years. Adapted into a 1987 film starring Colin Firth, Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Branagh, A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great WarJoseph Lloyd Carr (1912-1994) attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in the North Riding and Castleford Secondary School.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA head teacher, publisher and novelist, his books include A Day in Summer (1964); The Harpole Report (1972); A Month in the Country (1980), which won the Guardian Fiction prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Battle of Pollock's Crossing (1985), which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize; What Hetty Did (1988) and Harpole and Foxberrow, General Publishers (1992). If you enjoyed A Month in the Country, you might like Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Unlike anything else in modern English literature'D.J.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaylor, Spectator\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038045884692,"sku":"byh1789767278118","price":7.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/a-month-in-the-country-by-jl-carr_1.jpg?v=1789767282","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/a-month-in-the-country-by-jl-carr","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}