The Go-Between

By: L. P. Hartley

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

"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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A modern classic

Wonderfully evocative novel of class struggle in England, characters you care deeply about, a terrific plot line.

Great walk back in time.

Would you listen to The Go-Between again? Why?

This story keep me listening! Was get story!

Who was your favorite character and why?

Leo

What about Sean Barrett’s performance did you like?

Brought each character alive!

If you could take any character from The Go-Between out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Leo

Any additional comments?

I love listening to this story!!!

A outstanding performance

This was an English set work at school which concentrated, at the time, on the abundant metaphors.
Many years later, for me, the metaphors are wonderful, but the social commentary is more important. Perhaps our teacher was reticent in highlighting the naughty bits. Perhaps we were too young to grasp the facts. Perhaps we were too privileged, as young white boys in South Africa, to appreciate the other 'classes'.
Forty years later I could not stop listening, all the more so for Sean Barrret's narration.
Get it. Emerse yourself in the story.

Great story and narrator

Loved it. Want to listen again. The story has a brilliant ending. Take a listen.

Masterpiece

Very few books are so enthralling and brilliantly conceived that I actually slow down before I reach the finish because I so dread being done with it. This was one of those books. It will long linger in my mind.