Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A level study guide

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible and stimulating new educational edition is intended equally for those studying independently, with a personal tutor, or in class. The guide covers: – the context of the novel and its author; – detailed examination of themes, characters and structure; – a close look the novel in the author’s own words, and at different critical receptions; – glossaries and test questions designed 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 skewered 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, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life. Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible and stimulating new educational edition is intended equally for those studying independently, with a personal tutor, or in class. The guide covers: – the context of the novel and its author; – detailed examination of themes, characters and structure; – a close look the novel in the author’s own words, and at different critical receptions; – glossaries and test questions designed to prompt deeper thinking. —- ISBN: 9780571335770