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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1980
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize 1980
Filmed with Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh & Natasha Richardson 1987
 
"A profoundly affecting tale" - Auberon Waugh
 
"It is short, it is odd, it is memorable, it is admirable" - Marghanita Laski
 
"...a book I have always loved." - Michael Holroyd
 
A poignant tale of missed moments, love and discovery; set at the close of the Great War and enacted amongst a Yorkshire village community whilst the mystery in the mediaeval wall-paintings of the church is slowly unveiled.
 
"During any prolonged activity one tends to forget original intentions. But I believe that, when making a start on A Month in the Country, my idea was to write an easy-going story, a rural idyll along the lines of Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree. And, to establish the right tone of voice to tell such a story, I wanted its narrator to look back regretfully across 40 or 50 years but, recalling a time irrecoverably lost, still feel a tug at the heart. Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is coloured by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present or the past" - JL Carr