From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.
And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special--and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together..
Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman.
It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes a Gothic tour de force ( The New York Times ) with an extraordinary twist--a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human
