"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.
As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships, mysterious rules, and 'guardians' who constantly reminded the students how special they were. Now thirty-one, Kathy looks back on their shared past and tells how she and her friends gradually came to understand the shocking reason for the careful nurturing they had received.
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As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships, mysterious rules, and 'guardians' who constantly reminded the students how special they were.
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
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Never Let Me Go was written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Everyman
Never Let Me Go has 312 pages
Yes it is part of Everyman's Library Classics series
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