What I’m Reading: “The Outcast” by Sadie Jones

A friend loaned me The Outcast from her bookshelf because I said I felt like a break from SFF (Which I do read a lot if, it being my genre, so to speak.)

She thought I might enjoy it and she was right, I did. The Outcast is about 1950s, middle class, semi-rural England. In particular, it’s about a boy, Lewis, whose mother drowns in a tragic accident which only he witnesses. The Outcast explores the consequences of this traumatic event for ten-year-old Lewis, consequences that are exacerbated...