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1957 and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family but of a whole community. A decade earlier his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert has recently been demobbed. He reverts easily to suburban life - cocktails at six thirty church on Sundays - but his wife and young son resist the stuffy routine. Lewis and his mother escape to the woods for picnics just as they did in wartime days. Nobody is surprised that Gilbert's wife counters convention but they are all shocked when after one of their jaunts Lewis comes back without her. Not far away Kit Carmichael keeps watch. She has always understood more than most not least from what she has been dealt by her own father's hand. Lewis' grief and burgeoning rage are all too plain and Kit makes a private vow to help. But in her attempts to set them both free she fails to predict the painful and horrifying secrets that must first be forced into the open. As menacing as it is beautiful "The Outcast" is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice.
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TheBookPeople
1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert has recently been demobbed. He reverts easily to suburban life - cocktails at six thirty, church on Sundays - but his wife and young son resist the stuffy routine. Lewis and his mother escape to the woods for picnics, just as they did in wartime days. Nobody is surprised that Gilbert's wife counters convention, but they are all shocked when, after one of their jaunts, Lewis comes back without her. Not far away, Kit Carmichael keeps watch. She has always understood more than most, not least from what she has been dealt by her own father's hand. Lewis's grief and burgeoning rage are all too plain, and Kit makes a private vow to help. But in her attempts to set them both free, she fails to predict the painful and horrifying secrets that must first be forced into the open.As menacing as it is beautiful, The Outcast is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice.
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Foyles
‘If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, you'll love this’ Harper's BazaarThe bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous charades against the backdrop of a sleepy post-war English village August 1957. Lewis Aldridge, straight out of jail, stands alone at a Surrey railway station.He’s returned to the village where he grew up: the village where, a decade earlier, tragedy tore his family apart, leaving him to a troubled adolescence without a mother and with a father he barely knew.Now, the only person who understands him is Kit, daughter of a bullying local businessman. Soon they realise that to forge their own futures, they must first confront the darkest secrets of their past. As family, love, passion, sex and violence become ever more so intertwined, can Kit and Lewis find their way back to each other amidst the chaos? ------‘A tragic account of the devastating effects of parental abuse and the redemptive power of true love’ Guardian'In the tradition of Remains of the Day...a passionate and deeply suspenseful novel’ Margot Livesey-----WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION
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BookDepository
The Outcast : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099513421 : 0099513420 : 08 Jan 2009 : 'If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, you'll love this' Harper's Bazaar The bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous charades against the backdrop of a sleepy post-war English village August 1957.
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Blackwell
Traditional Chinese edition of The Outcast by Costa Novel Award winner Sadie Jones. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. 1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of...
- 0099513420
- 9780099513421
- Sadie Jones
- 16 June 2008
- Vintage
- Paperback (Book)
- 448
- Later printing
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