L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of
innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction and notes
by Douglas Brooks-Davies in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The past is a
foreign country: they do things differently there' When one long,
hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham
Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and
Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn
deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire,
until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation.
The haunting story of a young boy's awakening into the secrets of
the adult world, The Go-Between is also an unforgettable evocation
of the boundaries of Edwardian society. Leslie Poles Hartley
(1895-1972) was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, and educated at
Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. For more than thirty years from
1923 he was an indefatigable fiction reviewer for periodicals
including the Spectator and Saturday Review. His first book, Night
Fears (1924) was a collection of short stories; but it was not
until the publication of Eustace and Hilda (1947), which won the
James Tait Black prize, that Hartley gained widespread recognition
as an author. His other novels include The Go-Between (1953), which
was adapted into an internationally-successful film starring Julie
Christie and Alan Bates, and The Hireling (1957), the film version
of which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. If you
enjoyed The Go-Between, you might like Barry Hines's A Kestrel for
a Knave, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Magical and
disturbing' Independent 'On a first reading, it is a beautifully
wrought description of a small boy's loss of innocence long ago.
But, visited a second time, the knowledge of approaching,
unavoidable tragedy makes it far more poignant and painful' Express
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