The Go-Between

By L. P. Hartley

Subjects: Human relations, Courtship, England, fiction, Gentry, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Pastoral fiction, Love stories, Fiction, general, Teenage boys, Amnesia, Psychological fiction, Country life, England, Country homes, Large type books, Autobiographical memory -- Fiction., Memory, Social classes, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Autobiographical memory, Social life and customs, Man-woman relationships, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, romance, general, Nostalgia, Adolescence, Reminiscing in old age, Adolescents, Fiction, psychological, Psychology

Description: Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country estate where he befriends a local farmer. He soon finds himself acting as an unwitting messenger, carrying letters back and forth between the farmer and the daughter of his host on whom he has a crush.