276 pages
Published July 11, 2006 by Vintage Books / Random House.
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.
A beautiful, engrossing, haunting story. The innocence of the narrator and her vivid coming of age stories drift toward unsettling resolutions that reveal themselves slowly. But like the characters in the book, we knew what was coming all along.
Heartbreaking and thought-provoking. A tale of innocence lost to a brutal reality. Although at first it didn't draw me in, the fact that so little was said of the 'donors', curiosity kept me going until I was completely hooked. Not a book to easily forget.
