Never Let Me Go author Kazuo Ishiguro has announced his first new novel since the 2021 release Klara and the Sun.
Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger will be published worldwide next March, publisher Faber has said – revealing that the book will be set in a time and place familiar to fans of Ishiguro’s Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.
Publishing director Angus Cargill acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Peter Straus at RCW. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger will be published by Faber in the UK, Alfred A Knopf in the US and Knopf in Canada on 9th March 2027.
Set in 1938, the novel begins when, after attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert. “Determined to defend her from the apparently hostile forces closing in, he pursues Miss Lambert to a grand hotel deep in the English countryside, then onto a train bound for Scotland,” the blurb continues.
“From one of the great storytellers of our time, Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is an exquisite entertainment in which nothing is quite as it seems,” the publisher says.
Cargill said: “Drawing on his love of music, art and Golden Age cinema, this disarming and memorable caper offers a delicious new twist to Ishiguro’s work. We can’t wait for readers to climb aboard.”
Ishiguro was born in Japan in 1954 and moved to the UK at the age of five. His work has been translated into over 50 languages, with millions of copies sold worldwide.
The 72-year-old has received many prestigious honours, including the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize, the latter for his 1989 release The Remains of the Day.
A number of his novels have also been adapted for the silver and small screens, with a 1993 adaptation of The Remains of the Day – starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins – earning eight Oscar nominations.
Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield then took centre stage in a 2010 film adaptation of the tearjerker Never Let Me Go and Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro is currently developing a stop-motion animated adaptation of Ishiguro’s 2015 fantasy novel The Buried Giant. Taika Waititi’s film adaptation of Klara and the Sun, starring Amy Adams and Jenna Ortega, will be released in October
