Summer 1920. Tom Birkin, back from the First World War, arrives in the Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to uncover a medieval mural hidden beneath the whitewash of its church.
A short novel by James Lloyd Carr, published in 1980 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In Carr's hands a single month of light and quiet work becomes a meditation on memory, healing and fleeting beauty — and on a happiness we only recognise once it has passed.
In 1987 the novel became a film directed by Pat O'Connor from a screenplay by Simon Gray, starring Colin Firth as Tom Birkin and Kenneth Branagh as Charles Moon, alongside Natasha Richardson. In December, Booktino publishes its Arabic translation, by Sarah Shiban.
On screen
- Director
- Pat O'Connor
- Screenplay
- Simon Gray
- Starring
- Colin Firth · Kenneth Branagh · Natasha Richardson
- Music
- Howard Blake
- Year & length
- 1987 · 96 minutes
- Based on
- “A Month in the Country” by J. L. Carr, 1980
