Never Let Me Go

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 263, [1]. Publisher's dark green paper-covered boards, stamped in ecru to spine; mustard endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper (priced £16.99 to front flap).

Signed by Author to title page.

A 2005 New York Times Notable Book. Shortlisted for the 2005 Man-Booker Prize, the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2005 National Book Critics' Circle Award. TIME magazine named it the Best Novel of 2005 and included it in its 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Ranked 4th on The Guardian's 2019 list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st century.

Author's sixth novel. A dystopian tale of human cloning and organ harvesting, exploring mortality, loss and what it means to be human. Basis for the 2010 Mark Romanek-directed film from a screenplay by Alex Garland, starring Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan. Winner of the 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day, and the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. "[A] Gothic tour de force." –The New York Times