A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr ISBN 13: 9780940322479

James Lloyd Carr was born in 1912 and attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in Yorkshire. A head teacher, publisher, and novelist, his books include  A Day in Summer  (1964);  A Season in Sinji  (1967);  The Harpole Report  (1972);  How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup  (1975);  A Month in the Country  (1980), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize;  The Battle of Pollock’s Crossing (1985) , also shortlisted for the the Booker Prize;  What Hetty Did (1988); and  Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers  (1992). He died in Northhamptonshire in 1994. Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of Lytton Strachey, Bernard Shaw, and Augustus John. He has also written a memoir,  Basil Street Blues . He lives in London with his wife, the writer Margaret Drabble.