“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

Leslie Poles Hartley (December 30, 1895 – December 13, 1972) was an English novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his best-known works are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy and The Go-Between. The latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973. Wikipedia