by Sadie Jones · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099535164
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«The Outcast» is Sadie Jones's bildungsroman, published by Vintage in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Set in 1950s England, it follows Lewis Aldridge from childhood: after his mother's death and his father's remarriage, he grows up amid grief and family tension. Years later, his return from prison shakes the community; Kit Carmichael, who understands his pain, tries to help him as secrets from the past surface.
Sadie Jones's debut novel, winner of the Costa Book Award for Best First Novel and shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008.
For readers of literary and coming-of-age fiction, and for book clubs interested in postwar England.
Sadie Jones is an English writer and novelist best known for her award-winning debut novel, The Outcast (2008).
