A Month in the Country (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Quickly grabbing it, paying for it, and nestling it into my bag, I scurried home intending to read it there and then. Alice makes friends with Birkin, often coming to watch him at work, and he (lonely, damaged man) falls in love with her; but when the moment comes in which he might do something about that attraction he doesn’t take the chance. As Birkin uncovers patches of gilt and cinnabar up on his scaffold, Moon digs his pits outside the church walls; both of them are striving for some sort of, if not restoration, then freedom from their past, and for Birkin, at least, his stay at Oxgodby is a time of healing.

In particular, he forms a close friendship with archaeologist James Moon, another war veteran, who, like Birkin, has been emotionally scarred.The soundtrack of the film was written by Howard Blake, and is scored entirely for string orchestra in the style of early 20th Century British music. Adapted into a 1987 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.

Funding for the film was scarce, and it eventually fell to Euston Films (a subsidiary of Thames Television) and Channel Four Films, who had had some success with low budget features such as My Beautiful Laundrette. A Month is definitely small (just 85 pages in the Penguin Classics edition) but one of the marvels of this narrative is how, somehow, it still contains multitudes. Helpfully it was quickly accessible for for being straightforward and actually explained the mystery more clearly than the book. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Standing up there on the platform before a great work of art, feeling kinship with its creator, cozily knowing that I was a sort of impresario conjuring and teasing back his work after four hundred years of darkness.Levisham railway station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and the surrounding countryside was the setting for the Ellerbeck's house. A sublime, deeply affecting book about love, loss and the restorative power of art – one I would wholeheartedly recommend if you haven’t read it already.

It is a great novel and will be read long after some of the detritus acclaimed these days has been flushed away by our blessed ally, Time. It is generally agreed that A Month in the Country is Carr’s masterpiece, although it is a very short novel (E. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Then as he peels back the layers of plaster, dirt and time, revealing magnificent medieval mural, he also feels that he is carefully re-emerging from his trauma. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades.Carr, an obstinate man, didn’t care that it was already Turgenev’s title – besides, the novella has a Turgenevian mood to it. And, although we both looked outward across the meadow, she didn’t draw away as quite easily she could have done.