Never Let Me Go (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 212 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Kazuo Ishiguro delivers a compelling dystopian twist on the coming-of-age story in this riveting listen. Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth are three clones spending their youths at an isolated boarding school. Then their teacher reveals the shocking truth about why they were created: to be sacrificed when the person they were cloned from needs their organs. We were locked into this young trio’s frightening journey as they’re released into the real world, determined to find more answers. Exciting, eerie, and often tender, the story combines elements of a thrilling adventure with thought-provoking sci-fi concepts and deep character development. Narrator Rosalyn Landor perfectly inhabits the character of Kathy, delivering her inner monologue in a way that made us feel like part of the story. If you like a riveting listen that also makes you think, don’t miss Never Let Me Go.
Customer Reviews
It’s well written but it’s just too sad!
It’s so well written, there’s no extra fat or fluff that bogs it down, it’s very engaging tightly written. There are some excellent points made about morality and parallels you can draw to the real world. Lots of great dissections can come from it. If you don’t get to emotional over stuff then go ahead, and go into it without knowing anything about it, BUT Im really tender hearted. I’m so sensitive. I cried at the end and a lot the day after. I had to read this for my AICE class and I put it on double speed and got through it really quickly, and I had a feeling it wouldn’t be happy so I wanted to get through it quick so I wouldn’t get too invested, but I still was! 😭😭😭 I hate being forced to read such sad stories.