Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that explores the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, the book dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends. The novel is charged with a sense of the fragility of life and has been praised for its imaginative sympathy and its ability to keep readers thinking even after finishing it.

One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning authorShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeKazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

'Exquisite.' Guardian

'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' New York Time

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