Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up together at Hailsham, an English boarding school whose true, chilling purpose as a breeding ground for organ donors only gradually reveals itself.
Books mentioned in Never Let Me Go (2)
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot: “I was lying on a piece of old tarpaulin reading, as I say, Daniel Deronda, when Ruth came wandering over and sat down beside me.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: “You could go around implying you'd read all kinds of things, nodding knowingly when someone mentioned, say, War and Peace”
Books that mention Never Let Me Go (1)
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “My name is Kathy H. I'm thirty-one years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years (essay on Never Let Me Go)”