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 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 lonely and haunted farm in Cornwall suggested by Uncle Quentin and encounter Mr Penruthlan. They hear a story of the long-ago wrecking business. However, lights are being shone at night directing ships to the rocks. Is there a mystery on the way? This book has nineteen chapters describing the adventures of the Five. The novel begins with