Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly distorted version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one years old, Never Let Me Go dramatizes her efforts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship, and memory, Never Let Me Go is filled with a sense of the fragile nature of life.