A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War, J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald, author of Offshore, in Penguin Modern Classics.
James Lloyd Carr, born 1912, attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in the North Riding and Castleford Secondary School. He died in Northamptonshire in 1994.
I wanted to write A Month in the Country in space - a brief, lovely
homage to the natural world, pastoral writing about how deeply
humans respond to our natural environments and the relationship
between beauty and survival. In the end (I guess inevitably) the
two books bore very little resemblance, but I don't think Orbital
would exist without it
*Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital*
The book I keep coming back to, it's one of the best books I've
ever read. I've never met anyone who didn't love it
*Richard Osman*
Tender and elegant
*Guardian*
Unlike anything else in modern English Literature
*Spectator*
Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about
art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and
receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting
*New Yorker*
Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past
*Penelope Fitzgerald*
The book I keep coming back to, it's one of the best books I've
ever read. I've never met anyone who didn't love it. -- Richard
Osman
Tender and elegant * Guardian *
Unlike anything else in modern English Literature -- D.J. Taylor *
Spectator *
Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about
art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and
receiving. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting * New
Yorker *
Carr has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past -- Penelope
Fitzgerald
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