Beautifully written; one of my favourite books. I read this annually and truly empathize with the butler's sense of 'duty'.

Winner of Britain's Booker Prize, this original story brings us into the life of Stephens, an aging butler, who recounts major events that happened in his employer's household during the war years. Punctuated with humour, this story is about life's deeper tragedies. (Feb 2002) I also highly recommend Ishiguro's book, "When We Were Orphans," about British Colonialism in China.

I truly enjoyed reading this book, but wanted to shake him for so ruthlessly putting the requirements of his position before the requirements of himself as an individual. It is like the role has overtaken the person, leaving little room for any other aspects of life. A good warning about priorities

This book gives what appears to be a realistic and sensitive insite into the mind of a post WW2 butler of upper class Britain. I have no idea how true it is to the period, but I was drawn through the book.

This novel, deserving of its Booker Prize, is the story of an English butler who finds out too late what he has lost in life.

This book is all the more powerful because the story is told in an understated fashion by an unreliable and repressed narrator.

After many years of putting off reading this book, I found it to be one of the most delightful reads I have ever had. Now I wonder how I could have delayed reading this compelling story about the perfect English butler of a very large house now both in decline. After having spent his glory years serving Lord Darlington during the tumultuous Thirties, Stevens takes a trip in his new master''s car and finds his way down memory lane at the same time. His unrequited love for another of the staff from years before beckons him with a letter and he excitedly makes plans for her return to her duties and to his life. Expertly described and deliciously told, it was hard to put down until I finished the very last wonderful page.