{"id":1449,"date":"2006-04-19T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T13:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/04\/never_let_me_go\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T13:43:27","slug":"never_let_me_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/never_let_me_go\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Let Me Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=057122413X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nFirst of all, it&#8217;s probably worth pointing out that this book is Science Fiction. It&#8217;s not immediately obvious from the cover that it is, but publishers are nervous of &#8220;condemning&#8221; a novel by a mainstream author into the ghetto that is genre fiction.<br \/>\nThe story is narrated by Kathy from some time in the future, and it tells the story of her life from the time she was &#8220;educated&#8221; in the seemingly exclusive Hailsham.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to say a great deal more about the plot, as it should unfold naturally for the reader as they discover what&#8217;s going on. I&#8217;ve read a couple of Ishiguro novels before and this is yet another departure for him. He&#8217;s never scared to examine genres that he&#8217;s not previously attempted.<br \/>\nOverall though, I was only moderately interested in what happened in this book. It is carefully set-up as I&#8217;ve said, but I found it harder than perhaps I should have caring what the characters did and how they ended up.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s worth noting that this novel is up for the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appomattox.demon.co.uk\/acca\/shortlists.htm#2006\">Arthur C Clarke Award<\/a> for science fiction (the award is due to be made next Wednesday, 26 April). Not having read any of the other shortlisted novels, I couldn&#8217;t say how it compares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, it&#8217;s probably worth pointing out that this book is Science Fiction. It&#8217;s not immediately obvious from the cover that it is, but publishers are nervous of &#8220;condemning&#8221; a novel by a mainstream author into the ghetto that is genre fiction. The story is narrated by Kathy from some time in the future, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}