Never Let Me Go Kazuo IshiguroFrom the acclaimed author of “The Remains of the Day” and “When We WereOrphans” a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in ahaunting story of friendship and love.As a child Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham a private schoolin the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from theoutside world brought up to believe that they were special and that theirwell-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they wouldeventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her butwhen two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life she stops resistingthe pull of memory.And so as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled and as the feelings thatlong ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into loveKathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boysand girls growing up together unperturbed–even comforted–by theirisolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord andmisunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailshams nurturingfacade. With the dawning clarity of