A Month In The Country

Nominated for the Booker McConnell Prize, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, widely praised and widely reviewed, A Month in the Country is a masterpiece.

In the summer of 1920 two men meet in the quiet English countryside.

One is a war survivor, living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring a historical wall-painting. The other, too, is a war survivor, camping in the next field in search of a lost grave.

And out of their physical meeting comes a deeper communion, with the landscape, with history; and a catching up of the old primeval rhythms of life – past and present-so cruelly disorientated by the Great War.