Never Let Me Go

288 pages

English language

Published July 28, 2006 by Vintage International.

ISBN:
9781400078776
OCLC Number:
70236408

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4 stars (3 reviews)

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

41 editions

A Memory

4 stars

Content warning Spoiler Alert.

Review of 'Never Let Me Go' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

My Bookcrossing review from March 13, 2007:

A haunting read - it's been a while since I read it and I have placenta brain so I can't remember anything else to say about it unfortunately. I felt much the same as the previous reader in that I found it tedious to begin with but quite insightful when I finished.

Subjects

  • Women -- Fiction
  • Cloning -- Fiction
  • Organ donors -- Fiction
  • Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction

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