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A Month in the Country

By: J L Carr
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

©2024 J L Carr (P)2024 Penguin Audio Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Village Heartfelt

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Beautifully written with beautifully drawn characters. Best read in the month of August, same month as when the story unfolds.

Art & archaeology colide

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This must rank as one of my all time favourite audiobooks. A superb telling of a young man recovering in the Yorkshire countryside after the horrors of WW1. Alex Jennings is the perfect narrator of this lovely gentle story.

A wonderful atmospheric story read superbly.

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sense of place. really evoked village life in north yorkshire lost WW 1 . It was really beautiful, the quiet intensity of the relationships shone out

loved it

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Thoroughly enjoyed this. Far more than I think I expected to. Wholeheartedly recommended. Worth every minute.

Tremendously well written

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Quietly heart breaking in places and beautifully narrated too. Great sense of character and reflection

Beautiful story

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Some beautiful prose evoking peaceful rural life in Yorkshire (?) and the slow uncovering of some medieval art…that together heals a former soldier suffering from WWI. More could’ve been made of the love story I thought. Excellent narration. Just all so sad.

Melancholy story of longing set in 1920s rural England

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I listened prior to reading the book for both my Dr Zhivago literature course and a creative writing one. Alex Jennings is a great narrator and sets the right tone plus the voices are just perfect. An excellent example of how to write a novella.

Style and substance

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The sweet pain of nostalgia. The author captures the essence of a magical time and a place. I listened to this in my garden over the course of a sunny spring day. I was transported there with them and did not want to leave.

Poignant

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Really enjoyable listen. Beautifully poetic and wonderfully read. A gentle story about nostalgia and regret for moments of inaction in a long, lost summer. Great…

Beautiful

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A beautiful meditation on lost love and the after effects of war, superbly read. A classic.

Beautiful

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