L. P. Hartley
Hartley was a distinguished novelist of memory, class, and the damage done by the past, most famous for The Go-Between's celebrated opening observation about the foreignness of the past. His Eustace and Hilda trilogy is his most sustained achievement.
Works
- The Go-BetweenNovel of a boy's coming of age when he becomes an unwitting messenger between star-crossed lovers
- The HirelingNovel exploring class tension between a man and woman in a doomed relationship through a hired driver
- The Shrimp and the AnemoneNovel depicting the intense childhood friendship and sibling rivalry between two young friends
- Eustace and HildaTrilogy following childhood friends through decades of emotional entanglement and moral complexity
- The Boat
- My Fellow Devils