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Posted on August 29, 2020

Of course, he and Moon have another set of memories to haunt them, from Passchendaele. Now you know all about me. “The trees had stripped down to their black bones and had heaped leaves in drifts against hedges and walls.
“That was the missed moment. 'After a heroic struggle with the bell-pull, Birkin has the door opened to him by Alice Keach herself. I go to work at eight and come home at five-thirty. Put down that book and take our quiz to find out.Dystopia, poetry, essays – where do you start with the Booker winner's work? A mysterious old lady has left the church of Oxgodby some money under one condition: The old lady believes there is a wall painting underneath the plaster. He is dismissive of his employer: In Oxgodby Birkin finds himself literally and figuratively standing in a place of judgement where his initial brittle judgements mirror the judgement of the slowly uncovered wall painting.This form of judgement, writ large in these great Doom paintings, looks ahead to the end of time and the chief activity of Christ. He settled not in his native Yorkshire but in Northamptonshire, where he had been a head teacher.

'Is that so?' Keach, but Carr was a reckless proof-reader. “We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours for ever - the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. Who would have remembered them except Jim Carr?From the first Birkin has seen that the wall-painting is a Doom, a Christ in Judgement with its saved and its sinners in a great spread of reds and blues.

They don’t want to know if you’re any good: just what you’ve published …”
One of them, Moon, he meets on his first day in the bell-tower.We don't exactly know what Moon does, although he appears to be a professional archaeologist, and had 'an RFC pal' to fly him over the site before he began on his commission, which is to make reasonable efforts over a given period to find a lost fourteenth-century grave. Birkin, who is standing in his place of judgement is transformed through his experience of that place of judgement.Carr’s novel is not a quasi-religious text, and is in many ways powerfully critical of organised religion. In Oxgodby Birkin finds himself literally and figuratively standing in a place of judgement where his initial brittle judgements mirror the judgement of the slowly uncovered wall painting. As a soldier, he witnessed death: destruction and unending mud. 'It is the death of the spirit we must fear' is Carr's epigraph, this time for The Harpole Report. An art restorer, Birkin’s task through the novel is to uncover and restore a medieval ‘Doom’ painting on the wall of the small church in Oxgodby.As the novel begins this theme of judgement is present in everything Birkin does. Being Housman, he is not likely to expect an answer, and Birkin doesn't get one either. )The vicar is business-like – this seems at first to be his only good quality – disapproving, unyielding and chilly. Judgement, the Church has too often said with a certainty beyond its pay grade, is definitely for those with different backgrounds, different orientations, different beliefs who have the unhappy misfortune to be unlike us.In this way the judgement of the Church has existed as a projection of the prejudices carried by the one doing the judging. Kathy Ellerbeck, yelling her mam's invitation to Sunday dinner up Birkin's ladder, is Carr's heartfelt tribute to the Yorkshire school-leaver.The epigraphs of his books were important to him. “The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.” Carr Birkin travels to the small town of Oxgodby in the summer of 1920. Birkin also befriends two females: Kathy Ellerbeck, a fourteen-year-old girl and Alice Keach, the priest's wife. 'But Birkin runs out of money and finds himself obliged to call round at the vicarage to ask for his first instalment of pay.

Standing up there on the platform before a great work of art, feeling kinship with its creator, cozily knowing that I was a sort of impresario conjuring and teasing back his work after four hundred years of darkness.

“We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours forever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. 'You can only wait, Carr says, for the pain to pass, but what is it that once seemed ours forever?

A Month in the Country, with its paean to a lost, good place, oddly recalls Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes. For this was the sort of man I was."'

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