


Part 2 Chapter 17
Kathy notices that Tommy and Ruth are quite hostile towards her but are always growing distant between themselves. Kathy then decides it is best to tell Ruth how her behaviour makes Tommy feel, to which Ruth agrees. She then shocks Kathy by telling her that Tommy cares for her a good amount but would never consider her a potential girlfriend as she sleeps around a lot. Ruth then claims that most everything Kathy remembers about Halisham is untrue and Kathy finally makes the move to leave the cottages and prepare to become a carer.






Never Let Me Go
In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at a seemingly idyllic school, Hailsham, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory,


