Klara and the Sun

Having exhausted all of Kazuo Ishiguro's back catalogue, I was really looking forward to this. Klara and the Sun is a vaguely dystopian story of the life of a solar-powered ‘artificial friend', the eponymous Klara, and her observations on human behaviour as she comes to understand the world around her. Sci-fi has never been my bag and unfortunately even the clout of Ishiguro couldn't change that for me. The writing felt like it was keeping the reader at arm's length throughout, and I didn't find anything new in the somewhat tired trope of the AI that's just a little too human.