A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life. As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at a seemingly idyllic school, Hailsham, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A Gothic tour de force of innocence, knowledge and loss. In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Intended for individual study as well as class use, Geoff Barton's guide: - clearly introduces the context of the novel and its author - examines in detail its themes, characters and structure - looks at the novel in the author's own words, and at different critical receptions - provides glossaries and test questions to prompt deeper thinking. And as Kath's memories rise to the surface, they bring with them the dawning, disturbing clarity of hindsight: not only were these children created as organ donors, but despite Hailsham's attempt to protect the innocence of their youth, to nurture them and enrich their lives, their own humanness is not looked upon as a real form of humanity-a profound cruelty brought home to Kath now, in her last grasp at normalcy.Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of Never Let Me Go with a comprehensive study guide. A 'carer' for almost 12 years, she will soon become a 'donor,' tended by a carer of her own until her 'completion.' She has tried to put thoughts of what she thinks of now as her idyllic past behind her, but lately-partly because her current ward is a woman she has known since childhood, partly because the past will soon be all Kath has-she has stopped resisting the pull of memory.Īnd so as she makes her solitary rounds as carer, she takes us back to her years at Hailsham-one of many estates for special children-describing seemingly normal scenes of boys and girls growing up together, making and losing friends, getting an education, learning about the opposite sex, discovering the range of their own interests and talents.īut these children are different from the 'normals' outside Hailsham's gates they are clones. It is a world described through the memory of a 31-year-old woman knows only as Kath H. 'I'd recommend this book as Ishiguro is one of the premier artists in modern literature.'ĭavid Kolb - Books-A-Million, Hattiesburg, MS

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