"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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Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there?
It is only years later that Kathy, now aged thirty-one, finally allows herself to yield to the pull of memory. What unfolds is the haunting story of how Kathy, Ruth and Tommy slowly come to face the truth about their seemingly happy childhoods - and about their futures.
Never Let Me Go is a uniquely moving novel, charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of our lives.
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 368 pages
