From the bestselling author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love, deception, and dangerous charades, set against the backdrop of a quiet post-war English village.
August 1957: Lewis Aldridge, recently released from prison, stands alone at a railway station in Surrey.
He has 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 truly understands him is Kit, the daughter of a domineering local businessman. Soon they realize that if they are to build their own futures, they must first confront the darkest secrets of their past.