{"id":1183104,"date":"2026-02-15T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/promise-mascot-agency-review"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:42:22","slug":"promise-mascot-agency-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/promise-mascot-agency-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Promise Mascot Agency review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/promise-mascot-agency-review.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>One of the loveliest books I&#8217;ve read in the last few years is J. L. Carr&#8217;s short novel A Month in the Country. The book&#8217;s about a lot of things &#8211; and I may have written about it before on Eurogamer &#8211; but, broadly, the novel concerns a veteran of the first world war who turns up in a small village up north to uncover a piece of art that&#8217;s been concealed in the church. 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