The Outcast cover art

The Outcast

Preview
Free with 30-day trial
Prime logo New to Audible Prime Member exclusive:
2 credits with free trial
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks
Download titles to your library and listen offline
₹199 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

The Outcast

Written by: Sadie Jones
Narrated by: Sadie Jones
Free with 30-day trial

₹199 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for ₹888.00

Buy Now for ₹888.00

About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

Winner of the Costa first novel prize.

Shortlisted for the Orange prize for fiction.

The best-selling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous charades against the backdrop of a sleepy post-war English village.

August 1957. Lewis Aldridge, straight out of jail, stands alone at a Surrey 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?

©2008 Sadie Jones (P)2008 Penguin Audio
Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural Thriller & Suspense

Critic Reviews

"If you liked Atonement by Ian McEwan, you'll love this." (Harper's Bazaar)

"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)

No reviews yet