The Remains of the Day

Synopsis

Winner of the booker prize by the nobel-prize winning authorone of the bbc's '100 novels that shaped our world'in the summer of 1956, stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past. A contemporary classic, the remains of the day is kazuo ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a great english house, of lost causes and lost love.