James Lloyd Carr was born in 1912 and attended the village school
at Carlton Miniott in Yorkshire. A head teacher, publisher, and
novelist, his books include A Day in
Summer (1964); A Season in Sinji (1967); The
Harpole Report (1972); How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won
the FA Cup (1975); A Month in the Country (1980),
which won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize; The Battle of Pollock’s Crossing (1985), also
shortlisted for the the Booker Prize; What Hetty Did(1988);
and Harpole & Foxberrow General
Publishers (1992). He died in Northhamptonshire in 1994.
Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of Lytton
Strachey, Bernard Shaw, and Augustus John. He has also written a
memoir, Basil Street Blues. He lives in London with his wife,
the writer Margaret Drabble.
"Unlike anything else in modern English Literature." — The
Spectator
"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
“Amazingly beautiful: so perfect, so exquisite! …The nuance and
small moments that make up this gorgeous little novella are
breathtaking, and the quiet, spare story will completely invade
you. Brilliant!” —Dianah H, Powell’s City of Books blog "Carr
has the magic touch to re-enter the imagined past." — Penelope
Fitzgerald"The work is virtually perfect, and written with a great
deal of liveliness and wit." —Michael Wood"A unique and special
experience, a visit to a special time and place, deeply observed
and portrayed in beautiful prose." — The Washington Post
"Carr’s prose is spare, elegant and buoyed with wit; the idyllic
countryside and its inhabitants are rendered in affectionate
detail." — Publisher’s Weekly
"A Month in the Country…is one of those perfect, precious novels
that you want to loan to friends, buy all your relatives for
Christmas and give to your latest paramour." — Eve
Claxton, Time Out New York
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