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"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. It stays with us, too, and is oddly haunting." -The New Yorker
Tom Birkin, a vertan of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrived in a remote Yorkshire village to restore a medieval mural in the local church. Living in the country, labouring each day on an extraordinary piece of art, Birkin finds himself slowly restored to a new and hopeful attachment to life. As the summer ends, and long after, he finds consolation in the passage of time and the power of art.
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