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A Month in the Country

Written by: J L Carr, Penelope Fitzgerald - introduction
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
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Brought to you by Penguin.

'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman

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. 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, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years.

Adapted into a 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 War.


'Tender and elegant' Guardian

'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' Spectator

©1980 J L Carr (P)2024 Penguin Audio

 20th Century Classics Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural

Critic Reviews

I wanted to write A Month in the Country in space - a brief, lovely homage to the natural world, pastoral writing about how deeply humans respond to our natural environments and the relationship between beauty and survival. In the end (I guess inevitably) the two books bore very little resemblance, but I don't think Orbital would exist without it
The book I keep coming back to, it's one of the best books I've ever read. I've never met anyone who didn't love it
Tender and elegant
Unlike anything else in modern English Literature (D.J. Taylor)
Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting
Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past (Penelope Fitzgerald)
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