Never Let Me Go
Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest...
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Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571258093 (0571258093)
ASIN: 571258093
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 282
Edition language: English
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