A Month in the Country by J L Carr #joyce Ten-year-old Josephina kills her abuser

Ten-year-old Josephina kills her abuser

only to flee once Russia invaded Crimea again

And then charming new boy Bastian arrives with a proposition: he knows a spell that can raise Elizabeth from the dead

'The masterwork of a great genius' William Makepeace Thackeray

Child Psychologist and Neuroscientist

A Month in the Country by J L Carr #joyce Ten-year-old Josephina kills her abuserA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm,