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...In the giant ski room, butlers will help you in and out of your boots. Pétilaire-Bellet has breathed Courchevel air for almost 20 years, and knew the move would be fraught....
...They ended up working as a cook-and-butler duo. But then her father was interned on the Isle of Man, along with other male “German-speaking aliens”....
...Much later, the adult Beatrice recalled that many of her mother’s metallic monsters and bulbous creations scared her....
...It was similar with The Remains of the Day, the butler’s reverie that won Ishiguro the Man Booker Prize in 1989: “I’d made a reputation as a kind of Japanese writer, a kind of foreign correspondent based...
...The reticent narrators — a middle-aged widow (Pale View), an elderly artist (Floating World), a repressed, buttoned-up English butler (Remains of the Day) — are like detectives investigating their own past...
...As Lord Rothschild pours me another glass of smooth, deep-ruby bordeaux, Clive, a fully uniformed butler in pinstripes, waistcoat and tails, brings dessert – intimidatingly large apple and blackberry tarts...
...There are characters who resemble Beatrice and Benedick, Hero and Claudio, but Williams, unlike Shakespeare, takes us to the war-zone....
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