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Why we can’t let go of Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro's most popular novel is as relevant today as when it was published 20 years ago.

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When it was published in 2005, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go was acclaimed by critics and shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Twenty years on – having been adapted for stage and screen and adopted as a set text for schools – it is Ishiguro’s most read work, and is considered a modern classic.

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