The Outcast
( Knopf Canada,
2008;
$32.95)
Short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction, UK author, Sadie Jones' debut has been lauded for its "elegant and spare" prose and its "raw and explosive" plot. Set in 1950s London, The Outcast tells the story of ex-convict Lewis Aldridge on his way back from jail to face his family and middle-class community. What ensues is nothing less than dramatic!
Stuart Woods speaks with Jones in Toronto where she describes the inner workings of her first novel.
Stuart Woods is a journalist living in Toronto. Brendan Woods is a producer also living in Toronto. Yes, they are brothers, both in the biological and spiritual sense of the word.
