Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, tom birkin, a veteran of the great war and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote yorkshire village of oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the loca...Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, tom birkin, a veteran of the great war and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote yorkshire village of oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painte in j.