All 5 Uses of
successor
in
Never Let Me Go
- Well, I suppose you're the natural successor.†
p. 100.5successor = replacement
- It was perfectly possible that to someone on the outside, I'd look like Ruth's "natural successor."†
p. 100.9
- The way she'd nudged me and lowered her voice had made it all too obvious she too was expressing some assumption, probably doing the rounds, about me being the "natural successor."†
p. 101.3
- In fact, looking back now, I'm sure I would have had sex with Harry if it hadn't been for this "natural successor" business.†
p. 101.4
- Cynthia E.—the girl who'd said about me being Ruth's "natural successor" that time in the Art Room—†
p. 117.9 *
Definition:
replacement -- typically a person who takes the job of another person, but it can also be a thing that replaces something else