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'At first, I took you for a charming jewel thief.'





London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert.





Determined to defend her from the apparently hostile forces closing in, he pursues Miss Lambert to a grand hotel deep in the English countryside, then onto a train bound for Scotland.



Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize and have been translated into over fifty languages. Ishiguro's screenplay for Living received Academy Award and BAFTA nominations in 2022. Film adaptations of his novels include The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, A Pale View of Hills and the forthcoming Klara and the Sun.