Tom Lamont is an award-winning journalist and one of the founding writers for the Guardian’s Long Reads.
He is the interviewer of choice for Adele and Harry Styles, having written in depth about both of these musicians since they first emerged to fame in the 2010s.
Lamont's debut novel is Going Home: A Novel of Boys, Mistakes, and Second Chances.
At Lit Hub the writer tagged five titles featuring unconventional families. One title on the list:
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me GoRead about the other entries on the list.
Spoiler avoidance will necessitate some vagueness here: but the core characters in Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel—Kathy H, Tommy D and Ruth C—were born in such a waythat family was denied to them. Growing up in an institution together, they become each other’s support system, friends, rivals, lovers, carers.
The title (agonizing, in its fictional context) is a reference to a song that Kathy H, who cannot have children of her own, sings to herself while she imagines rocking a baby to sleep.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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