Books like The Go-Between
An old man in 1952 revisits the summer of 1900 when, as a 12-year-old houseguest, he carried secret messages between a Norfolk farmer and the daughter of the big house.
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Atonement
A thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie that destroys two lives, then spends decades trying to atone through the only tool she has: writing.
My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman becomes obsessed with his beautiful cousin Rachel, unable to determine whether she's an innocent widow or the woman who murdered his guardian.
Brideshead Revisited
A middle-class army captain remembers his Oxford friendship with the Catholic, doomed Sebastian Flyte and the long slow collapse of Brideshead in two wars.
Howards End
The idealistic Schlegel sisters, the wealthy, practical Wilcoxes and a struggling clerk, Leonard Bast, become entangled over a country house and a disputed bequest, in a novel about who will inherit England.
The Remains of the Day
An ageing English butler reflects on a lifetime of service, repressed love, and the moral compromises of loyalty to a flawed master.
Maurice
Maurice Hall, a conventional young man from the suburbs, falls in love at Cambridge with his friend Clive Durham, in an England where their love is a crime, and has to work out what kind of life he can have.
Black Swan Green
A thirteen-year-old boy navigates 1980s England, stammering through adolescence while his family quietly disintegrates.
The Good Soldier
A naive American narrator tries to tell the 'saddest story' of his friendship with Edward Ashburnham and the four-way adultery he failed to notice until it had ended them all.
The Dutch House
A brother and sister are evicted from their family's Philadelphia mansion and spend decades haunted by the house and the stepmother who took it from them.
The Sense of an Ending
Tony Webster, retired and settled, receives a solicitor's letter about a small bequest from the mother of his university girlfriend, and it forces him to revisit his friendship with Adrian, the brilliant schoolfriend whose story he thought he understood.
Mansfield Park
A quiet, principled young woman raised by wealthy relatives navigates jealousy, moral compromise, and the theatrics of Regency society.
Reef
Triton, a boy taken into service with Mister Salgado, a marine biologist in Colombo, learns to cook and to read the world, as Sri Lanka slides into violence.