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Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summers, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's extraordinary depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life....
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2018.
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English
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"A new, revised edition of the novel first published over 14 years ago. Rachel Piers, a brilliant young conservatrice at a Manhattan art gallery, is given the dream assignment of restoring a mysterious medieval painting in a church in Rome. Choosing to leave behind a bitter divorce and painful childhood incident, Rachel meticulously restores the damaged artwork, meanwhile uncovering layers of her soul that she would rather be kept hidden."--
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