The Outcast

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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'She writes in beautiful prose of terrible events, demonstrating how love denied brings brutal consequences'
Joan Bakewell
One summer's day in 1957, nineteen-year-old Lewis Aldridge stands alone at Waterford railway station. The only person awaiting his return is a fifteen-year-old girl called Kit Carmichael. Like him, she endured a childhood spent in the stifling atmospHere of an English village recovering from the ravages of the Second World War.
A decade earlier it was Lewis who waited for his father's homecoming from the war. His mother, a free-spirited and glamorous woman, holds husband and son in her thrall. But when tragedy strikes, Lewis and his father, unable to console one another, are torn apart by their grief.
Now, from the fractured remains of their old lives, Kit and Lewis must forge their own futures. As menacing as it is beautiful, The Outcast is a devastating portrait of transgression and redemption from an astonishing new voice.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'She writes in beautiful prose of terrible events, demonstrating how love denied brings brutal consequences'
Joan Bakewell
One summer's day in 1957, nineteen-year-old Lewis Aldridge stands alone at Waterford railway station. The only person awaiting his return is a fifteen-year-old girl called Kit Carmichael. Like him, she endured a childhood spent in the stifling atmospHere of an English village recovering from the ravages of the Second World War.
A decade earlier it was Lewis who waited for his father's homecoming from the war. His mother, a free-spirited and glamorous woman, holds husband and son in her thrall. But when tragedy strikes, Lewis and his father, unable to console one another, are torn apart by their grief.
Now, from the fractured remains of their old lives, Kit and Lewis must forge their own futures. As menacing as it is beautiful, The Outcast is a devastating portrait of transgression and redemption from an astonishing new voice.
4An elegant, subtle, haunting növel that stayed with me long after I finished it. Sadie Jones has a long literary future ahead of her'
Tracy Chevalíer
'Jones depicts the stifling Fifties with a terrifying clarity and menace an impressive new voice*
Observer
'Dark but beautifully written The claustrophobic, menacing I atmosphere never lets up but it's more than narrative tension that makes the növel special. Her writing is deeply affecting the desire to see justice done keeps one reading avidly'
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