L. P. Hartley

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there"

Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was an English writer of novels and short stories. His work shows a concern with complex relationships within families, cross-class sexual relationships and nostalgia for Edwardian summers of picnics and bathing parties.

Works by LP Hartley include:

 * The Eustace and Hilda Trilogy:
 * The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944)
 * The Sixth Heaven (1946)
 * Eustace and Hilda (1947)
 * The Go-Between (1953)
 * The Hireling (1957)