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 Go-Between Leo's age in 1909, Hartley spent a summer with a school friend called Moxley at Bradenham Hall in Norfolk and took part in a cricket match. The names are sufficiently close to Maudsley and Brandham to give rise to such speculation. But Tóibín counsels a cautious approach to the question, quoting Hartley's own study of fiction-writing, "The Novelist's Responsibility". The novelist's world, he wrote, "must, in some degree, be an extension of his own life." And, while it is “unsafe to assume that a novelist's work is autobiographical in any direct sense,” this does not prevent it from reflecting his