Never Let Me Go. Kazuo Ishiguro.

Most profound book on loss I have ever read. Mother once mentioned the feeling after she read TotD by Hardy; a unidentifiable feeling of a punched stomach that transcended physical cause.

Three friends — Kathy, Ruth and Tommy — lead a sheltered upbringing at a boarding school. They, and their fellow students, are children with a purpose. Just exactly what these purposes and relationships are drives the narrative brilliance of this story.

Don’t want to give away the shocker ending, but Vaguely Sinister Boarding school turns into something more beautiful, more terrifying and sad.