{"id":681,"date":"2022-02-02T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T10:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thequeensreadingroom.co.uk\/?post_type=books&p=681"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:42:01","slug":"the-remains-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/thequeensreadingroom.co.uk\/books\/the-remains-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Remains Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This book is a brilliant portrait of an ageing English butler and his fading, insular world in post-war Britain. An evocative and beautiful story of life and lost love in one of the great country houses between the wars…<\/div>\n
~ Her Majesty Queen Camilla <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Publish Date:<\/strong>\u00a01989\u00a0Awards:<\/strong> 1989 Booker Prize for Fiction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Stevens is an English butler who spent his life to the service of the recently deceased Lord Darlington. Encouraged to take a well-earned vacation, he decides to visit Miss Kenton, the former housekeeper at Darlington Hall. During the journey, he ponders about his former master, a Nazi sympathiser undeserving of his unflinching loyalty, his late father, and Miss Kenton herself, to whom he never admitted his true feelings. Stevens is left musing over missed opportunities, but a stranger encourages him to stop dwelling on the past and embrace \u201cthe remains of the day\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n