Plot (chapters)

Question 1

🏫Chapter 1

Answer 1

🎈Kathy introduces herself and talks about her job as a “carer” looking after “donors”.
🎈She talks about Hailsham and her friends there (Ruth)
🎈We are introduced to Tommy, and how he throws tantrums
🎈It is not clear what Hailsham is

Question 2

🏫Chapter 2

Answer 2

🎈We learn more about Tommy and how he continues to be bullied but he starts to ignore it and things start to change for him.
🎈He apologises to Kathy

Question 3

🏫Chapter 3

Answer 3

🎈We find out that Miss Lucy is the reason why Tommy stopped throwing tantrums
🎈Miss Lucy tells Tommy that his art doesn’t matter
🎈We are introduced to madame and her gallery and the fact that she is scared of the children at Hailsham.

Question 4

🏫Chapter 4

Answer 4

🎈Kathy remembers Miss Emily’s assemblies
🎈She also tells us how she met Ruth and played with her
🎈The kids of Hailsham are annoyed about their tokens

Question 5

🏫Chapter 5

Answer 5

🎈The girls create a secret guard for Miss Geraldine
🎈Kathy tells the story of Ruth’s pencil case.
🎈She recalls how she felt bad when she exposed Ruth for lying.
🎈We learn about the rumours on the woods around Hailsham

Question 6

🏫Chapter 6

Answer 6

🎈Kathy makes it up to Ruth after the pencil case incident.
🎈Kathy remembers how she saw Madame crying while watching her dancing to ‘Never Let Me Go’
🎈Ruth buys Kathy a new tape when she loses her’s

Question 7

🏫Chapter 7

Answer 7

🎈Final years at Hailsham
🎈Miss Lucy tells the clones about their purpose in life (donations)
🎈The story of Tommy’s injured arm

Question 8

🏫Chapter 8

Answer 8

🎈Tommy and Ruth are dating

🎈However they break up and Ruth asks Kathy to get them back together.

Question 9

🏫Chapter 9

Answer 9

🎈Kathy contemplates going out with Tommy
🎈Miss Lucy talks to Tommy and tells him that art is important
🎈 Ruth and Tommy resume their relationship

Question 10

🏡Chapter 10

Answer 10

🎈They arrive at the cottages
🎈Ruth and Tommy continue as a couple
🎈Kathy starts to find Ruth annoying

Question 11

🏡Chapter 11

Answer 11

🎈The clones start to have sex at the cottages
🎈Kathy worries about her desires
🎈Kathy looks through magazines to find her possible

Question 12

🏡Chapter 12

Answer 12

🎈Chrissie and Rodney think that they have seen Ruth’s possible
🎈They plan a trip to Norfolk to find her

Question 13

🏡Chapter 13

Answer 13

🎈The group go on a trip to Norfolk
🎈Chrissie mentions deferrals
🎈Ruth pretends she knows about deferrals and gets annoyed when Tommy doesn’t go along with it.

Question 14

🏡Chapter 14

Answer 14

🎈They all follow Ruth’s possible to the art gallery

🎈They soon realise that it’s not Ruth’s possible and she gets bitter.

Question 15

🏡Chapter 15

Answer 15

🎈Tommy and Kathy go off and hunt for Kathy’s tape and find it
🎈Tommy shares his gallery theory with Kathy
🎈He also talks about his animal drawings

Question 16

🏡Chapter 16

Answer 16

🎈Kathy sees Tommy’s drawings
🎈Ruth starts to pretend to forget about Hailsham
🎈She also sneers at Tommy’s drawings and gallery theory

Question 17

🏡Chapter 17

Answer 17

🎈Ruth’s tells Kathy that Tommy will never fancy her

🎈Kathy suddenly decides to leave the cottages

Question 18

🏥Chapter 18

Answer 18

🎈Kathy now works as a career
🎈She meets Laura and they talk in her car
🎈She becomes Kathy’s carer
🎈They make plans to visit Tommy and see an abandoned boat

Question 19

🏥Chapter 19

Answer 19

🎈Frail Ruth, Tommy and Kathy visit the abandoned boat
🎈Ruth urges Tommy and Kathy to seek a deferral
🎈Ruth dies on her 2nd donation

Question 20

🏥Chapter 20

Answer 20

🎈Kathy becomes Tommy’s carer
🎈They start a relationship
🎈They both agree to visit Madame and seek a deferral

Question 21

🏥Chapter 21

Answer 21

🎈Tommy and Kathy visit Madame and explain to her why they are there.
🎈Miss Emily emerges after listening to their conversation

Question 22

🏥Chapter 22

Answer 22

🎈Miss Emily explains to them about the failed Hailsham project
🎈They leave without their deferral
🎈Tommy has a tantrum in the middle of a field

Question 23

🏥Chapter 23

Answer 23

🎈Notice for Tommy’s fourth donation, (where he dies) but he doesn’t want Kathy to be his carer.
🎈At the end of the book Kathy reflects on her loses