He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. 9780241972038 A Month in the Country 25.1000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/classics A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life. 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. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the w. 'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'
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