The go-between - L.P. Hartley

L.P. Hartley’s powerful novel opens with Leo, a man in his sixties, looking back to his childhood and his first glimpse of the passion and intrigue behind the entranced mask of adulthood. In the summer of 1900, as a young boy, he is staying at a friend’s house in Norfolk. Leo, with a change in his life irrevocably, befriended by a farmer, inadvertently begins to act as messenger between him and the beautiful Marian up at the house. Proud of his trust placed in him by two people he adores, Leo is drawn in deeper and deeper. A pawn in their dangerous game of deceit and desire, his involvement leads to a premature, devastating awakening.