The Go-Between (2015 film) Marian and her estranged grandson; Marian persuades him to act as a go-between one last time. Reviewing "The Go-Between" for UK daily newspaper "The Daily Telegraph", Jasper Rees gave the adaptation five stars out of five, writing: "Where the BBC’s fresh take on "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" hollowed out the original and injected its own up-to-date agitprop, "The Go-Between" (BBC One) kept faith with LP Hartley’s devastating story of love denied. This was what creative fidelity is meant to look like". He added that, "Pete Travis’s roving camerawork revealed the gilded paradise of Brandon Hall [sic - Brandham Hall] in impressionistic
The Takeover (novel) role of religion (represented by Hubert's bogus Diana cult and two indolent, chortling Catholic priests) and the role of money: mostly unseen, or buried. A larger-scale backdrop is provided by the 1973 oil crisis. Hubert's secretary, Pauline Thin, shares her surname with the Edinburgh-based stationer James Thin, who supplied Spark's notebooks in which she wrote all her novels in longhand. The Takeover (novel) The Takeover is a novel by the Scottish author Muriel Spark. It was first published in 1976. It is set in Nemi, Italy between 1973 and 1975. The author had moved to Italy as a permanent resident