Audiobook10 hours
The Go-Between
Written by L.P. Hartley
Narrated by Seán Barrett
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
‘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.
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Reviews for The Go-Between
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fabulous. 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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Simply beautiful. I need to read it now after listening to the Audio version as it is that worthy a novel.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A 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.