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 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.