A Review By Carolyn Dews 

This bestseller was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2005 and is being released as a film shortly.

The book opens with a 31 year old Kathy looking back on her time at ‘Hailsham’ a seemingly idyllic school set in the English countryside.  Their artwork is a key factor of their school life.  Kathy attempts to come to terms with the fate that awaits herself and her friends.  At the heart of  ‘Never Let Me Go’ is the friendship between herself, Ruth and Tommy.

As a reader you become aware of what awaits them in the wider world.  It raises many questions about humanity and what is deemed as acceptable.

I found it to be a similar genre to Maragaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. I thought it was a brilliant novel and well worth reading, and it is rightly especially popular with  bookgroups.