In Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy attend a boarding school called Hailsham. The school appears at first to be a sheltered English institution, but its students gradually learn the disturbing purpose for which they were created.
Hailsham's pupils are clones raised to become organ donors. Their guardians encourage art and creative work, partly because the students' artwork is used to argue that they possess inner lives and humanity. This makes the school's apparent protection morally complicated rather than simply benevolent.
Kathy later becomes a carer for donors and narrates the story retrospectively. Her memories of Hailsham organize the novel, which moves between childhood, young adulthood, and the characters' increasingly limited future.
Norfolk is another important place in the novel and is sometimes confused with Hailsham. Kathy and her friends visit Norfolk, which they associate with lost objects, but it is not their school.