Classics
Literary
Historical fiction
1953
The go-between by L. P. Hartley
Published in Spanish as El mensajero
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall.
What it is
A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · tender and sad at once
What happens in it
Unreliable narrator
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Structure
- Two timelines
- Who tells it
- First person
- Style
- Literary
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you enjoy not trusting who's telling it
- you like a book that stays with you for days
- you like a book that leaves you uneasy
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