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Led by James Naughtie, readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

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Sadie Jones

Dymphna Flynn

Bookclub: Sadie Jones - The Outcast

03/08/2014

Sadie Jones - The Outcast

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Sadie Jones - The Outcast

Sadie Jones talks about her novel The Outcast, which won the Costa First Novel award 2008.

Sadie Jones talks about her novel The Outcast, which won the Costa First Novel award in 2008. James Naughtie chairs, and a group of readers join in the conversation.

With James Naughtie. Sadie Jones talks about her novel The Outcast which won the Costa First Novel award in 2008.

The book is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and adolescence - as he grows up in the stultifying world of the home counties in the late forties and fifties. It's a tale of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also a love story.

Sadie says : There's something fascinating about the 50s, the cataclysm of the war and the 60s. We all think about this explosion of freedom, but caught in between it was ten years of breath held and that fascinated me.

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Presenter : James Naughtie
Interviewed Guest : Sadie Jones
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

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