Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro5/10/2023 ![]() Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.Īnd so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. However, the review below is spoiler-free.)įrom the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.Īs a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. ![]() (Okay, that's a mouthful, but it's hard to summarize this book without adding spoilers, though honestly, even if you're "spoiled" as to the truth at the heart of the story, I don't think it will change your reading of the book much. ![]() ![]() Inverarity One-line summary: Three friends grew up together in a deceptively idyllic environment whose dystopian creepiness only becomes apparent in a slowly unfolding narrative. ![]()
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