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The Outcast

Sadie Jones

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Awards

Winner of Good Housekeeping Book Awards: Best Debut 2008.

Winner of Costa First Novel Award 2008.

Shortlisted for Galaxy British Book Awards: Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award 2009.

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This publication is not for sale to libraries. This book is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and adolescence as he grows up in the stultifying world of the home counties in the late forties and fifties. It is an everyday tale of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also a love story.

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lianne08 rated this book

Brilliant book. Keeps you gripped and wanting to keep reading! I found that the main character Lewis was brilliant and you sympathise with him so much and I felt that I was shouting in my head as you get frustrated at the actions of others. This would be a great movie! Highly recommend this book!

Funky-fifi rated this book

A powerful story and very sad. I seem to remember I was disappointed with the ending.