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Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro

Shortlisted
The Man Booker Prize 2005
Published by Faber & Faber

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Thought-provoking and unsettling by turns, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel gradually unveils the true nature of three children’s apparently happy childhoods

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children were sheltered entirely from the outside world and brought up to believe they were special. But why were they really there? Now 31, Kathy looks back on the past and narrates the haunting story of how she and her two friends slowly came to confront the truth about their past - and about their futures.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro’s works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Other nominated books by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing world through the eyes of a unique narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro’s adventurous combination of historical fiction and detective story, set largely in England and Shanghai of the 1930s
The Remains of the Day
Prize winner
Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England