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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
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.
I discovered JL Carr when he published A month in the Country and have loved his novels ever since. A Month is both uplifting and elegiac; quite a feat of writing. We always give a copy to new friends to cement the friendship
Just wanted to tell you that I recently made a gift of J.L.Carr's book, 'A Month in the Country' to my brother, who is aged 94. A little while later he said to me 'It is a long time since I have enjoyed a book so much'. Thank you.