The Outcast: A Novel
by Sadie Jones
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Author: Sadie JonesEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN: 0061374032
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Harper
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Summary: 5 Stars
This is a heart breaking story of a lonely child with an unfeeling father. Lewis Aldridge is an only child who spent all of his time with his adored mother during WW2. When his father, Gilbert is demobbed at the end of the war and returns to his prewar way of conventional middle class life, he feels like an intruder in the close world of his wife and son and resents the boy's presence. When his mother drowns shortly after, Lewis has no one to comfort him and can't understand his father's reaction to his sorrow by telling him to just snap out of it, so retreats to his own silent world, learning to block out the pain and loneliness. Gilbert remarries after less than 2 years but again Lewis is left alone and friendless and resorts to violent behaviour to at least feel something. His only ally is a small girl neighbour who is in much the same boat as he and who, on reaching puberty, has to become accustomed to receiving beatings from her father, the local pillar of the community and church. It's a very emotional story and a potentially tragic one but this brilliant writer leaves the reader with the possibility that the young people will be strong enough to survive and recover from their fear, despite the wrappings of normalcy and hypocrisy which surrounds these twisted and cold parents.
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