Barbara I. (Munro) reviewed on 10/10/2006 + 95 more book reviews

Superbly unsettling, impeccably controlled . . . . The books irresistible power comes from Ishiguros matchless ability to expose its dark heart in careful increments. Entertainment Weekly

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.

Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them specialand how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day
Man Booker Prize Finalist

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