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    The Go-Between
    The Go-Between
    The Go-Between
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Go-Between

    Written by L.P. Hartley

    Narrated by Sean Barrett

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    ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ Haunting, moving, evocative, The Go-Between is L.P. Hartley’s heartbreaking novel about social constraints and childhood innocence. During the long hot summer of 1900, young Leo Colston is invited to stay for a month at a lordly, aristocratic manor in Norfolk. There he falls in love with his friend’s older sister, who commissions him to ferry secret messages to the local farmer, her lover. His naiveté sustains their affair, until ultimately leading to an event that will change their lives irrevocably.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateApr 1, 2016
    ISBN9781781980262

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    Readers find this title fascinating, charming, and simply beautiful. It is a magnificent evocation of a lost last generation and ranks alongside Charles Dickens. The book is full of sexual allusion and child exploitation, but it is a worthy novel that is enjoyable to read."

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic writing, plot, suspense, sensitive portrayal of humanity where less is more. All current aspiring writers should read this.
    • 5/5
      Fabulous. I haven't read it for 50 years and I think it ranks alongside Charles Dickens. Full of sexual allusion, and indeed child exploitation, yet a magnificent evocation of a lost last generation.
    • 4/5
      Simply beautiful. I need to read it now after listening to the Audio version as it is that worthy a novel.
    • 5/5
      A fascinating and charming novel. Recent, by my standards, 1961, but it's set circa 1900 and feels not unlike the Edwardian and late Victorian era writing I usually prefer. I really enjoyed it.