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The Blurb On The Back:

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 British House, of lost causes and lost love.

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The Verdict:

Whilst I didn't quite believe in the romance angle to the book, Ishiguro's prose is beautiful in its economical simplicity and I never ceased to believe in Stevens or his motivation. I can well see why this won the Booker Prize.

The Blurb On The Back:

In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

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The Verdict:

Moving and thought provoking, you can see why this book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2005. This is an excellent example of the literary face of science fiction (which seems to be more acceptable to 'The Establishment') and is definitely worth a read.