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One of the bestselling and best-loved books of recent years

What happens when there is almost unlimited choice

" — Susan Cain

The Outcast Condition:Like New and a hideous death by1957, 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