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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1980
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize 1980
Filmed with Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh & Natasha Richardson 1987
"A profoundly affecting tale" - Auberon Waugh
"It is short, it is odd, it is memorable, it is admirable" - Marghanita Laski
"...a book I have always loved." - Michael Holroyd
A poignant tale of missed moments, love and discovery; set at the close of the Great War and enacted amongst a Yorkshire village community whilst the mystery in the mediaeval wall-paintings of the church is slowly unveiled.
"During any prolonged activity one tends to forget original intentions. But I believe that, when making a start on A Month in the Country, my idea was to write an easy-going story, a rural idyll along the lines of Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree. And, to establish the right tone of voice to tell such a story, I wanted its narrator to look back regretfully across 40 or 50 years but, recalling a time irrecoverably lost, still feel a tug at the heart. Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is coloured by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present or the past" - JL Carr
A Month in the Country
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Publication Essentials
Dimensions: 20 x 13cm (7.75 x 5")
Printed in Great Britain on quality paper, this standard-sized paperback is type-set and formatted by the Quince Tree Press in keeping with JL Carr's original style and authorial autonomy.
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Reviews
Thanks for my order. I was so moved by A Month in the Country many years ago and had lent out my Quince Tree edition to a friend who also loved it (and kept it). I will be back.
This is a beautifully written book about those “times” that we should all have in our past. A magic, seemingly perfect time that if acted on, might have taken us on a very different path through life. What might have been is a mystery of course, it is now resting in our mind as a painful but wonderful memory of a month in the country, wherever that country may be.
You gotta read it!
I am a Methodist Local Preacher, so there are passages in the book which I love, and are exactly right. I bought this copy for a friend whose birthday is soon, and had never heard of J L Carr. I told her that if she doesn't enjoy the book there must be something wrong with her! Thank you for continuing a literary legacy.