![]() These events seem to melt past Tom in the heat of the perfect, fleeting English summer: "The front gardens of cottages were crammed with marjoram and roses, marguerites, sweet William, at night heavy with the scent of stocks. ![]() His single season in this town in the north of England passes quickly: he sleeps in the belfry, makes a friend or two, falls secretly in love with the vicar's wife, and, chipping away at plaster and dirt, uncovers a lost masterpiece. A veteran of the Great War and a cuckold, Tom arrives in Oxgodby to restore a medieval mural in the church. Writing in 1978, Carr's narrator, Tom Birkin, recalls the summer of 1920. Carr's quiet, brief, dreamy A Month in the Country. ![]() The culture of confession has given rise to novels that begin with an unspeakable act (graphically described) and end in redemption (this part is usually more vague). Any good reader has, well, had it with novels of healing. ![]()
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