Summary
Shortly after meeting his father after he's returned from World War II, Lewis loses his mother to drowning. His father, too grief-stricken to respond to Lewis, allows Lewis to grow up full of pain and guilt. Lewis becomes an outcast in his `respectable` community, as he turns inward and more violent. Only the love of a neighbor girl with her own secret may be able to draw Lewis away.
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Critique
A beautifully written expose of the secret pain of a respectable English community after World War II. A first novel.
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