However, I found it rather slight overall, like a pretty piece of pastoral music, pleasant but not soul-stirring.

Un jeune artisan, survivant de la Première Guerre Mondiale, est engagé pour restaurer une vieille peinture murale (recouverte de plâtre depuis des siècles) dans l'église d'un petit village. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. A Month in the Country” is a beautifully written exploration of the human spirit’s capacity for resilience and the enduring power of art to heal and inspire. This sort of book is an ideal find, a secret joy that sustains you through many reading duds and radiates its warmth outwards for a long time after the final page is reached. Carr's blessedly small tale of lost love is also a small hymn about art and the compensating joy of the artist, both in giving and receiving.Mrs Woolf, wife of the manager, is a very celebrated author and, in her own way, more important than Galsworthy.

He worked for a year as an unqualified teacher — one of the lowest of the low in English education — atI felt that if I couldn't do it in the present, suggesting internal pain by performance, then I wouldn't really want to do it at all. The simplicity of the men's needs while they worked at their separate projects, paid for by the will of an observant and thinking woman with the `face of a field marshal'. A Month in the Country Archived 17 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine at the British Film Institute. Birkin is narrating his story from a point of distance, looking back nearly 60 years to the summer in question. Tom Birkin is hired to uncover a church mural believed to be under many layers of whitewash, as he slowly uncovers the mural there is a slow healing in himself from war trauma and the dissolution of a marriage.