Abitur required reading in Lower Saxony (written Abitur examination 2020) "Never Let Me Go" is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro published in 2005. The book was nominated for the highest British literary award, the Booker Prize (Shortlist), in 2005. It also received nominations for the Arthur C. Clarke Award (2006) and the National Book Critics Circle Award (2005). Time magazine selected it as the best novel of 2005 and included it in its list of the hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. In 2015, 82 international literary critics and scholars chose the novel as one of the most significant British novels. About the novel: The story begins in Hailsham, a boarding school, and is narrated by Kathy H., who relives her memories. Hailsham is located in South Essex (England), set in beautiful countryside and cut off from the outside world.