NEVER LET ME GO
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Faber & Faber. £7.99
ISBN 0 571 22413 X
Science fiction is a genre I would normally associate with outlandish goings on, strange beings and lots of technology; definitely not my cup of tea. But in some ways you would have to put Never Let Me Go in a science fiction category, because it deals with an alternative vision of Britain, a present day in which science has travelled down a different route and allowed the production of human clones.
Ishiguro places this unreal scenario in a very real world. The Britain described here is our Britain, with office lunches, rhubarb patches and motorway services, while the technology which supports cloning remains extremely hazy. Never Let Me Go was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, a well deserved accolade for it is thoughtful and readable;. I raced through it in under 48 hours!
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