After a discussion with my son recently about what he was reading in English class, I got to thinking about what I had had to read in school during the early to mid teen years and while there must have been many a book over the course of that time, I could recall only three. Hardly surprising really…mandatory school reading must surely be the bane of every child’s existence: if school asks it of you it will most assuredly be boring with a capital B and therefore must be eternally banished from recollection. The Go-Between, however, by L.P. Hartley, managed…
