L.P. Hartley
English novelist and short-story writer best known for The Go-Between (1953). His work often explores memory, class and the constraints of English society; famed for the line, "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
Books
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1. Messaggero D'amore
An older man looks back on a summer in his childhood when, as a shy thirteen-year-old visiting a grand country house at the turn of the century, he was co-opted into carrying secret messages between an upper‑class young woman and her working‑class lover; through his naive complicity he experiences a sudden sexual awakening, becomes entangled in the era's rigid class codes and hypocrisies, and is left haunted by guilt and the lasting distortion of memory and innocence.