The Brickfield

A masterpiece is a work that has an overtone of permanence. Mr. Hartley's The Go-Between had it, and now it appears again in The Brickfield -- Richard Church, Bookman This fine novelist still has the courage as well as the skill to excavate in those layers of consciousness from which many newer writers turn hopelessly away -- Norman Shrapnel, Guardian The quality of this excellent novel consists partly in the skilful evocation of bygone sights, sounds, smells and attitudes of mind, partly in the brilliant characterization, but above all in the delicate, tender treatment of this youthful love-story -- Robert Baldick, Daily Telegraph The economy of the book is a wonder, and the power to conjure past time while staying awake to the present as remarkable as one would expect -- Anthony Burgess, Spectator