_*_KAZUO ISHIGURO'S NEW NOVEL _KLARA AND THE SUN _IS NOW AVAILABLE_*_ SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2005 BOOKER PRIZE Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, _Never Let Me Go_ 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. 'EXQUISITE.' _GUARDIAN_ 'A FEAT OF IMAGINATIVE SYMPATHY.' _NEW YORK TIMES_ WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: 'A BOOK I WILL RETURN TO AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND ONE THAT KEEPS ME THINKING EVEN AFTER FINISHING IT. 5/5 STARS' 'I LOVED IT, EVERY SINGLE WORD OF IT.' 'IT TOOK ME WHOLLY BY SURPRISE.' 'UTTERLY BEAUTIFUL.' 'ESSENTIALLY PERFECT.'