The Go-Between past that continues to exist in and to control the subconscious … This doubling of consciousness and of narrative voice—the innocent twelve-year-old's emerging from beneath the self-protective sixty-five-year-old's—is one of Hartley's most effective techniques.” Another preoccupation in Tóibín's introduction was how far the story of “The Go-Between” is based on fact, in the wake of Adrian Wright’s biographical study, "Foreign Country: The Life of L. P. Hartley". Although Leo is twelve at the time of the novel – the long, hot summer of 1900 – the five-year-old Hartley remembered that time afterwards as "a Golden Age". When he was about
Five Go Down to the Sea The Famous Five failing to go on a cycling trip. So Uncle Quentin sends them to a farm in Cornwall. However, on the way there,they pass a mysterious hole on another street. Eventually they reach their destination, where they meet Mr Penruthlan, the farm’s owner. The gamebook "The Wreckers’ Tower Game" (1983) was based on this novel. Five Go Down to the Sea Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1953. In this novel, The Famous Five decide to spend their time at a