"Never Let Me Go is by Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-English writer best known for his novel, The Remains of The Day. It revolves around three students – Kathy, Ruth and Tommy – who seem to live an idyllic life in a sunny, upper class English boarding school. We witness them go through the typical experiences of adolescence – peer pressure and insecurities, love and heartbreak.
But as the story unfolds, Ishiguro reveals from one sinister scene to another, how Kathy and her friends’ lives are anything but normal. In fact, the very idea of their existences makes even their teachers and guardians recoil in horror.
Ishiguro writes this macabre story masterfully. Part sci-fi, part horror tale, part love story, Never Let Me Go is replete with scenes that are normal and innocent on the surface, but are throbbing with knotted tension and heart-in-your-throat terror. There is one particular scene near the end, where Tommy and Kathy confront their old headmistress, Miss Emily, which still haunts me at odd moments and sends shivers tingling down my spine.
In the end though, the story is more sad, rather than scary. And because it is set in a believable, relatable environment, with very real, very human characters that you will come to love, the ending is all the more tragic and heartbreaking. "
I heard that there's a movie coming out this year starring Keira Knightley and Cary Mulligan. I hope it's good.
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