NOBEL PRIZE WINNER•From the acclaimed, bestselling author ofThe Remains of the Daycomes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.
One ofThe New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • AKirkus ReviewsBest Fiction Book of the Century • ALos Angeles TimesBest Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. 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.
