Another easily made acquaintance is quick-minded teenager Kathy Ellerbeck, who wanders in to observe Tom at work, invites him to tea and chapel soon she even has him helping out with Sunday school, with an expedition to buy (as cheaply as possible) an organ for the chapel. The month is August 1920, when reminiscing narrator Tom Birkin-a young Great War veteran deserted by his wife-takes his first, underpaid professional job, uncovering the medieval wall painting in a north-of-England village church: ""This is what I need, I thought-a new start, and, afterwards, maybe I won't be a casualty any more."" Tom, still suffering from shell-shock's after-effects, lives in the church's bell-tower and shares morning coffee with fellow veteran Moon-a witty young archaeologist who's tenting in the meadow next door, digging for a medieval sarcophagus.
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