The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction · Great for: Adults

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Winner of the Booker Prize 1989

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past…

A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.