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Title: gorgeous
Review: Carr's book isn't one of those page-turning adventure stories which get you staying up all night. It's a gorgeously written meditation on the ideas of love and identity enfolded by time and memory, a small treasure which gets you staying up all night.As the years of dirt and grime get removed from the artwork he has been commissioned to restore, Tom Birkin, the young WWI vet commissioned to restore the original painting, comes also to see his own reality, his own light and life shine again, as well as the hearts and pasts of the local community members. At the same time another veteran is employed to look for an old grave beyond the churchyard walls. So one man is looking up from the scaffolding while the other is looking down into graves.It's a very good book.
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