Carr, J. L.

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Carr, J. L. ( James Joseph Lloyd Carr) (1912–94), novelist, children's writer, and independent publisher, born and educated in Yorkshire, and at Dudley Training College. His works include A Season in Sinji (1968, a cricket story), The Harpole Report (1972), How Steeple Sinderby Won the FA Cup (1975), The Green Children of the Woods (1976), and The Ballad of Pollock's Crossing (1985). His best-known work is A Month in the Country (1980), a short novel set in the summer of 1920: the narrator Birkin, a war survivor, is restoring a wall painting in the village church at Oxgodby, where he meets another survivor who is camping out in the next meadow while seeking to discover a 14th-cent. tomb.

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