From the moment I started reading I was captivated and could not help but want to read on. So many questions are posed throughout the novel but it's hard to talk about the answers without giving the enjoyment of the book away. The premise is that there are three central characters being raised in a snooty sounding boarding school focused on the importance of art and raising their pupils under a cloud. We know nothing of the children before they are at the school, but we know from Kathy's reminiscent narration throughout that a mysterious future awaits all who pass through the halls of Hailsham. Kathy flits between old and new memories weaving warmth with depravity and a kind of warped reasoning only a child could possess.
Readers are driven by the questioning; who are these people? What happens to them when they graduate? Why is Ruth such a bitch? Why does Madam look at them in that way? What genre is this? What is it that makes us human?
The truth us heart wrenching but the novel is beautiful. It remains equally haunting an heartwarming throughout the third and final part of the novel, drawing us in to a building, unspoken, everlasting love that mesmirises and overwhelms. It is difficult to speak about Never Let Me Go without spoiling the experience so I'll leave it there. I read this book in three days, quicker than I've read a book since I read the first Harry Potter novel and The Outsider (which doesn't count because it is really short and I read it in one day, sitting in the sun on the holidays.) I could not put it down and neither will you. I can't wait for the film to come out.
Read this book.
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