{"product_id":"a-month-in-the-country-9780241972038","title":"A Month in the Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eA haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: J.L. Carr\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 Aug 2014 by Penguin Books Ltd.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"J.L. Carr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320981954938,"sku":"9780241972038","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780241972038.jpg?v=1790668197","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-month-in-the-country-9780241972038","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}