Never Let Me Go

Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro

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In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly 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.


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My oh my, what can I say about one of my favourite books of all time? I read this years ago and I'm still processing it! Nobody touches on human emotions in such a painful but simultaneously beautiful way quite like Ishiguro. Most of his books leave me wounded, but none like Never Let Me Go.


This book follows three friends who have lived their entire lives at Hailsham, a peaceful boarding school in the British countryside. The world seems normal to them but it isn't until they grow up and leave that they understand the true nature of their lives on this earth, and the secrets that Hailsham harboured. This is a touching and unconventionally dystopic story about love, loss and human morality. You'd be hard-pressed not to fall in love with Ishiguro after reading this one. 


Perfect for fans of sentimental literary fiction and Ian McEwan.

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Stunning new repackages to celebrate Ishiguro's popular baclikst titles.

Shortlisted for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2006 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Primio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize). He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.

General Fields

  • : 9780571258093
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.235
  • : July 2010
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 19mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kazuo Ishiguro
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823/.914
  • : oc2010029749
  • : 304
  • : FW