go-between

Description:

Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country estate where he befriends a local farmer. He soon finds himself acting as an unwitting messenger, carrying letters back and forth between the farmer and the daughter of his host on whom he has a crush.

subjects: Country homes,  Country life,  Courtship,  Fiction,  Gentry,  Social classes,  Teenage boys,  Autobiographical memory,  Man-woman relationships,  Psychology,  Memory,  Love stories,  Autobiographical memory -- Fiction.,  Psychological fiction,  England, fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, romance, general,  Adolescents,  Human relations,  England,  Social life and customs,  New York Times reviewed,  Adolescence,  Amnesia,  Nostalgia,  Reminiscing in old age,  Pastoral fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, general,  Man-woman relationships, fiction

Places: England

Times: 1900