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.
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.