One long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a schoolfriend at Brandham Hall, and begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful woman up at the hall.
He is drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation. The Go-Between is the unforgettable and haunting story of a boy’s awakening to the secrets of an adult world.
A Familiar Country
In a cardboard box I put the essential objects we would need in our rented cottage, until we got the keys to our new house in Norfolk: my infant daughter’s stuffed monkey, some paperwork, Cash’s...
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