Never Let Me Go

Charlotte says about Never Let Me Go:
"Told through its candid and forthright narrator, Kathy, as she details her experiences growing up at the infamous Hailsham School, this is a novel with a surprisingly domestic and mundane front despite harbouring a dark and impactful secret. Ishiguro’s skills as a deft observer of the intimacies and nuances within human connection are obvious, and he’s surprisingly great at capturing the way a young girl navigates the challenges of growing up, maturing, and defining her place in the world. I still can’t get over how accessible and utterly absorbing his prose is, and I won’t forget the impact Kathy and her friends had on me!"

One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo 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.