“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. They've gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. All this happened so long ago. And I never returned, never wrote, never met anyone who might have given me news of Oxgody. So, in memory, it stays as I left it, a sealed room furnished by the past, airless, still, ink long dry on a put-down pen. But this was something I knew nothing of as I closed the gate and set off across the meadow.”
Quote by J.L. Carr
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A Month in the Country
This novel is a reflective and introspective work that follows the experiences of a city-dweller as they spend a month in the English countryside. The story delves into the complexities of social interactions and the transformation of the protagonist's perspective on life and society. more
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