The Outcast: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2008
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- Synopsis
- ‘If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, you'll love this’ Harper's BazaarThe bestselling novel behind the BBC mini-series, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous charades against the backdrop of a sleepy post-war English village August 1957, Sussex. Lewis is nineteen, straight out of jail, and stands alone at a 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
- Copyright:
- 2008
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 480 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781407013152
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781529191738, 9781407014906, 9781407014890, 9780099513421
- Publisher:
- Random House
- Date of Addition:
- 04/05/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Sadie Jones
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.