Just finished reading this 1989 Booker Prize winning book about a long-serving butler of Darlington Hall.

The story is based on Steven’s reflections of his 30+ year career as butler as he embarks on a leisurely holiday in to the countryside.

Ultimately, a reflection on his life in the context of a country that has changed quickly within a few decades, Steven is left wondering sticking to ideals such as dignity and properness were worth sticking to or whether he had followed an illusion.

‘After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?’

Most definitely worth putting on your reading list!

Don’t enjoy reading books? (I can’t possibly imagine why!) then you can watch the 1993 film! Trailer below :)