"A sad, soulful novel that asks the reader to explore what it means to be human."
A YA novel! That is a hill I’ll die on! Like all the best YA fiction, an intricate world unfolds while the teenage characters are realistically preoccupied with seemingly mundane art projects, missing cassette tapes and boyfriends. Devilishly clever; right from the off, something isn’t quite right with the students at Hailsham boarding school. By the time you realise precisely what’s going on for the poor teens, you’re in love with Kathy and her manipulative best frenemy, Ruth. A sad, soulful novel that asks the reader to explore what it means to be human.
Selected for the Man Booker 2005 Shortlist. Kazuo Ishiguro has been acclaimed in the Sunday Times for 'extending the possibilities of fiction'. In Never Let Me Go he has fashioned another remarkable story - a story of love, loss and hidden truths - that takes its place among his finest work. Download an extract and make up your own mind.
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'A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish.' TIME
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Narrated by Kathy H, as she tries to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, it is a story of love, friendship and memory, charged throughout with a sense of life's fragility.
Readers adore Never Let Me Go:
'A masterpiece . . . a beautifully written, skilfully crafted story that reveals what lies in the core of the human heart.'
'Touches the depths of your intellect and your soul.'
'A genuinely moving illustration of an aspect of human nature that we usually like to ignore.'
'I guarantee it will move you and probably bring you close to tears.'
'A masterful read: gripping, thought-provoking, and immensely sad . . . I have found myself thinking about it for days.'
'Undoubtedly a modern classic that spans genres.'
'I read it in a day and I am certain it will stay with me for years.'
Never Let Me Go features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Dystopian and utopian fiction, General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Sharing Diverse Voices, Speculative fiction, Fiction
Never Let Me Go is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Never Let Me Go was written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Faber & Faber
Never Let Me Go has 304 pages
£18.00
