Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE & A level this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of Never Let Me Go with a comprehensive study guide Intended for individual study as well as class use Geoff Barton's guide- clearly introduces the context of the novel & its author;- examines in detail its themes characters & structure;- looks at the novel in the author's own words & at different critical receptions;- provides glossaries & test questions to prompt deeper thinking In one of the most memorable novels of recent years Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England Narrated by Kathy now thirty-one Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at a seemingly idyllic school Hailsham & with the fate that has always awaited her & her closest friends in the wider world A story of love friendship & memory Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life