A Month in the Country by J L Carr #joyce Penguin ClassicsISBN: 9780241625187Extent: 208 pages

Penguin ClassicsISBN: 9780241625187Extent: 208 pages

Illustrated by Lucy Farfort

Hicks McTaggart

And then charming new boy Bastian arrives with a proposition: he knows a spell that can raise Elizabeth from the dead

A Month in the Country by J L Carr #joyce Penguin ClassicsISBN: 9780241625187Extent: 208 pagesA 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. 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 the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm,