This is a perfect little novel. It’s about a recently returned Great War vet whose wife left him when he got back taking a job restoring a mural in a small North Country Vicarage. It was written in the 1970s by an older writer and so it has that nice flavor of remembering a time long past and being able to write about it in the frank, stark honest terms not always available at the time. Birkin shows up in the North during a torrential […]