Spine Crackers discussion

As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance – and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work.

This is the song from the cassette that Kathy loves so much. They made this for the movie. Jane Monheit is the actual singer, as Judy Bridgewater is fictional. I think this song is so cute, it's very easy to see why Kathy loved it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UX6t...

I like this book so far. I like how it lets us into the mystery one bit at a time before the reveal in the middle of the book.
My favorite part so far is probably the little story about Norfolk and the tape.

Also, if you want to stay spoiler free do not look up the trailer for the movie. The movie trailer tells you things you don't learn about until about half way through the book

Kenzie wrote: "This is the song from the cassette that Kathy loves so much. They made this for the movie. Jane Monheit is the actual singer, as Judy Bridgewater is fictional. I think this song is so cute, it's ve..."

I really like this song and the feel of it is how I imagined the song to be. However, it's so weird that they left out the lyric Kathy obsesses over in the book. They probably changed what Kathy was wanting the song to mean in the movie and that's why. But if not, it's odd that they left out the "Baby, Baby" bit.