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A Month in the CountryBook

by J. L. Carr

Who uses, recommends or left A Month in the Country, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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English novelist and short story writer; author of Our Endless Numbered Days, winner of the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize, and Unsettled Ground, winner of the 2021 Costa Novel Award.
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Even if, when writing a character from different gender or race than your own, you’re still using elements of what’s happened in your own life, the way I think Carr does in A Month in the Country.

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