Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro in 2005, is set in an alternative 1990's England, in which the world made biomedical advances after WWII instead of technological ones. The novel is the "memoir" of Kathy H, a student clone at the Hailsham School, and it is told as a series of memories. She is writing her story when she is about to begin donating her organs, and she is trying to recall all of her childhood memories in order to figure out when she became truly aware of what her future was going to be. She relives the memories of her childhood all the way up until she begins donating her organs.

The novel raises many questions including: What would you hold onto when life is short? What does it mean to be human? Would you speak up and help the clones? Can love excuse us from our destiny? The reason the novel is a "great" novel is because it raises these difficult questions, but it does not attempt to answer them for the reader. Because the novel is told as a series of memories, they do not have an agenda, and they do not try to prove a point to the reader, but instead they hand the reader a situation and allow him/her to determine what is important. Each reader is able to find his/her own answers in the story of Kathy's life because each reader brings his/her own experiences to the novel. Ishiguro's style draws the reader in by not revealing all of the information until the end. He gives the reader as much information as the characters had at that point in their life, so that when all is revealed the reader does not feel completely surprised.