Publisher's Synopsis
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize. 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 makes a friend or two, falls secretly in love with the vicar's wife, and though alone with only an interpretation of the world's end for company, learns to live again. "A unique and special experience, a visit to a special time and place, deeply observed and portrayed in beautiful prose." WASHINGTON POST
