A Month in the Country (novel)
A Month in the Country is a novel by J. L. Carr, first published in 1980 and nominated for the Booker Prize.
The plot concerns two World War I veterans who are employed to carry out restoration work in a village church. Many of the incidents it contains are based on real events in Carr's own life, and some of the characters are closely modelled on his own strict Methodist family.
The book was later made into a film starring Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh.