Malvern staff member Fernando is a New York Review Books Classics enthusiast, and he has an excellent recommendation for y’all…

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

This is my idea of a summer novel: English, pastoral, bildungsroman, filled with secret love affairs, in a twentieth-century setting well before the outbreak of the First World War. Told in multiple layers, it is witty, deep, and at times heart-wrenching—what visions of the future the world held for us then.

Also recommended: The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West. Growing up with talented siblings in early twentieth-century London is not easy, but it certainly is picaresque and strange.