Book guide
Never Let Me Go
A haunting story of love, friendship, and memory set in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England.
Genre and trope pairingsSci-FiDystopianSci-FiClonesLiteraryTragic love storyLiterarySelf-discoveryLiteraryComing of ageLiteraryIdentity crisisLiterarySocial commentary
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About Never Let Me Go
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. 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.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- medical experimentation
- organ harvesting
- death
- infertility
- bullying
- dehumanisation
- grief
- sexual content
