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The Outcast (Vintage books) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Outcast1957, 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 thi...
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 16 June 2008
- Format: Paperback 448 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780099513421 ISBN 10: 0099513420
- Sales rank: 20,095
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The Outcast
**A Richard and Judy summer Read 2008**
Sadie Jones' atmospheric and beautifullly written novel The Outcast is set in the South of England, in Surrey, in the 1940s and 50s. It is the haunting and tragic story of Lewis Aldridge and Kit Carmicael.
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.
by Mark Thwaite
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.
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