Tuesday book review

 

Four-star review of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishuguro

This novel written as a memoir about the protagonist Kathy with remembrances begins with her childhood at Hailsham boarding school in England, but it wasn’t like those places in so many British boarding school series. The book was well constructed with the author gradually revealing what was really happening with these children. Kathy and her two best friends, Ruth and Tommy, are individuals, well-developed and interesting. Even when they are moved to the cottages, we don’t know what’s so special about them, although we can guess from the terms that are used for what’s in store for them.