![]() ![]() He takes up Methodism despite working and literally living in an Anglican church, becomes close friends with Charles Moon a fellow WWI vet who has been hired to unearth the grave of the ancestor of an important local family, becomes an honorary member of the Ellerbeck family, and falls in love with the vicar’s wife. We learn the value of vocation and art for their own sake. And we see Birkin slip almost imperceptibly into the life of the village. ![]() Through Birkin’s experience we meet the people of Oxgodby and are introduced to their various quirks and natural distrust of a city boy from the South. Carrs novel, A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, first published in 1980, has quietly become a modern classic. Over only 135 pages, Carr’s poetic writing conjures up so many moving, beautiful, and humorous images, I feel very clumsy writing about it. ![]() ![]() Written as a memoir, Birkin’s story is equal parts country idyll, love story, and ethnographic sketch. Carr is directed by Pat OConnor and stars Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth in their first film roles.The Church. Tom Birkin, a Londoner, and a somewhat shell-shocked veteran of World War I arrives in Yorkshire to uncover a suspected wall painting in the village church. The film version of the classic book by J.L. Carrs deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote. ![]()
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