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... Læs mere
A masterly evocation of childhood and its influences on the adult mind, from the author of The Go-Between
A complex masterpiece of observation. English village life in war-time Britain is brought to life.
A masterly evocation of grief and loneliness that bind two very different people together, from the author of The Go-Between.
Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed. For Jael lives in the New State, created out of the devastation of the Third World War.
Leo Colston - a man haunted by the events of his past - vividly recalls his unwitting role acting as a go-between for the beautiful upper-class Marian and the tenant-farmer Ted.
An evocative account of a childhood summer spent beside the sea in Norfolk by brother and sister, Eustace and Hilda.
The magnum opus from the author of the much loved classic, THE GO-BETWEEN: 'A masterpiece from the very first image' (Guardian)