About the Author

Leslie Poles Hartley was born in 1895 and died in 1972. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford. His eighteen novels include The Shrimp and the Anemone, The Sixth Heaven, Eustace and Hilda (which won the 1946 James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Go-Between, The Boat, The Hireling, The Brickfield, Poor Clare, The Love Adept and My Sisters

Reviews

"L. P. Hartley possesses a genuine interest in problems of moral discrimination and a concern for human and civilized values that make it possible to relate him at his best to the tradition represented by Henry James, inherited perhaps by way of E. M. Forster." --Gilbert Phelps, author, "The Heart in the Desert"

"One of the best novels he has produced . . . at least as good as "The Go-Between."" --"Daily Mail"