The Outcast International Manga Award (2015) and showing how your values

and showing how your values and personality govern your actions

Perfect for armchair dreamers and adventurous travelers

and surprisingly moving'

and fine writing" (Jeffrey Ford)

and the helping professions

The Outcast International Manga Award (2015) and showing how your values1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert has recently been demobbed. He reverts easily to suburban life cocktails at six thirty, church on Sundays but his wife and young son resist