I haven’t read the other books on the short list for the Booker Prize but if Never Let Me Go wins, I won’t be surprised.
This is an interesting take on the cloning idea that avoids the science fiction feel that too many cloning novels take on, (I’m not a huge Sci-Fi fan). What’s really interesting is that I didn’t know it was about cloning, lol. It took me pages and pages to realize that was how these children were “created”. I understood why they were created but it never hit me that they were clones. Once it hit me I said “duhhhhh”. 😉
There was one section in part three that felt wrong to me. Kathy H is talking about sex and the voice no longer sounds like hers, at least not to me. It’s a brief section, maybe a page at best, but it bugged me.
If you’re interested in another cloning novel that doesn’t stretch into science fiction a whole lot, Cast of Shadows was pretty good. There’s a computer gaming aspect to it that was really interesting as well.