The Outcast

“Beautifully delicate…ever more compelling as Jones builds in a palpable sense of suspense.” - Booklist (starred review)“Riveting…A superb debut novel about repression, rebellion, and moving on…The tension in THE OUTCAST is palpable and sensuous, beating loudly beneath the tranquil surface of Jones’s calm prose, and Lewis never disappoints in his fight for an ‘after’ that is happy and shame-free.” - Elaina Richardson, O magazine“A superb debut novel…Jones’s prose is fluid, and Lewis’s suffering comes across as achingly real.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)“With her lush writing and tantalizing sense of setting and detail, Jones has written a novel that stands apart from rote imitation, and…offers the welcome promise of a literary career of originality and distinction.” - Boston Globe“One of the more subtle of the…hot debut novelists…this season” - New York Sun“An arresting story” - Washington Post Book World

Sadie Jones is the author of five novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; the enchanting, hard-hitting novel set on the island of Cyprus during the British occupation, Small Wars; her most successful, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests, beloved of Ann Patchett and Jackie Winspear, among other; the romantic novel set in London’s glamorous theatre world, Fallout; and most recently, the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel, The Snakes. Sadie Jones lives in London.