Not a new book, but one that is a deliberate, well written, a simple story about a World War I veteran who decides to accept a month in the Yorkshire countryside restoring a recently discovered medieval mural of the apocalypse.  Enjoy 135 pages of a gem of a novel.

And Colin Firth stars in the movie version.

Protagonist Tom Birkin is a broken man. Haunted by his experiences in the trenches of World War I and recovering from a divorce, Birkin accepts a job restoring a medieval mural of the apocalypse in a church located in a remote corner of Yorkshire. It is here, however, that Birkin, though alone with only an interpretation of the world’s end for company, learns to live again. Carr’s small gem of a novel was first published in 1980. – Library Journal

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