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Narrated as a confession, this novel recounts a single summer at the close of the nineteenth century. The narrator, a young boy, spends the season at a country estate where he forms an unexpected friendship with a local farmer. His innocence leads him to serve as an unwitting courier, carrying letters between the farmer and the daughter of his host, the object of his adolescent affection. The book delicately explores themes of memory, social class, and the fragile beginnings of love within a pastoral English setting.
First publish date: 1953
Genre: Psychological Fiction/Psychological Drama
Authors: L. P. Hartley
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