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the outcast
p in 1957 lewis aldridge newly released from prison returns home to waterford a suburban town outside london . he is nineteen years old . a decade earlier his fathers homecoming at wars end was greeted with far less apprehension by the staid tightly knit community thanks to gilbert aldridges easy acceptance of suburban ritual and routine . nobody is surprised that gilberts wife counters convention but the entire community is shocked when after one of their jaunts lewis comes back without her . p no one in waterford wants lewis back except kit a young woman who sympathizes with his grief and burgeoning rage . but in her attempts to set them both free kit fails to foresee the painful and horrifying secrets that must first be forced into the open . the consequences for lewis his family and the tightly knit community are devastating .
paperback harper perennial 2009 isbn13 9780061374043 isbn10 0061374040
abridged n isbn 13 9780061374043 number in series 1 number of pages 345 publisher harpercollins release date 62135769600000 series title p.s.