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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS A MONTH IN THE COUNTR...

'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman'Tender and elegant' Guardian'Unlike
anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor  Spectator 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. With an introduction
by Penelope Fitzgerald

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