For the play of the same name authored by Ivan Turgenev, see Ivan Turgenev.
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 a World War I veteran employed to carry out restoration work on a village church mural, which was white-washed over years previously. 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 1987 film starring Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Patrick Malahide. It was directed by Pat O'Connor.
