Outcast

Name: Outcast
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
ISBN: 9781433272400

Author: Rosemary Sutcliff

Narrator: Johanna Ward

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 10/02/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

When a Roman ship is wrecked on the coast of Britain, Beric, the infant son of a Roman soldier, is the only survivor. Beric grows up with a Briton tribe, but to his foster people he remained an alien, one of the Red Crests. So when bad times come, the tribe holds him responsible and casts him out. Rejected by the only life he knew, the boy turns to his own people, but Rome too rejects him. Lost, bewildered, a captive in his fathers land, he escaped from slavery only to be captured again and condemned to labor on the rowing benches of a galley of the Rhenus Fleet. Will Beric ever find ultimate happiness? Rosemary Sutcliff provides a fine and exciting story with a background of Roman Britain that rings true from the first page to the last.

About Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff (1920–1992) was born in Surrey, England. A voracious private reader, she left her regular studies at fourteen to attend art school. In 1950 her first children’s book was published, and from then on, she devoted her time and talents to writing children’s historical novels. Many of her books are set in Roman Britain, a period that particularly interested her. She received the OBE in 1975 and, in 1992, was awarded the CBE. She was still writing on the morning of her death at the age of seventy-two.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosemary

Once upon a time long before the category of YA - Rosemary Sutcliff and Geoffrey Trease dominated the historical novel market. And for some reason I didn’t warm to them. Now very happily rediscovered, I want to read everything that they’ve ever written! ‘Outcast’ is a beautifully developed and sensi......more

Goodreads review by Luisa

I really enjoyed this read! Sutcliff is truly a wonderful story-teller. Her vividly rich and yet raw descriptions of people and places are transportive, providing understanding into the harsh times of the period and what it would be like to make a life for yourself through it all. I came close to cry......more

Goodreads review by Olivia

This is the most I've ever enjoyed a Sutcliff novel, and ironically, I've hardly heard anything about it from my Sutcliff-loving friends. Huh. In any case, this was an entertaining and quietly wholesome adventure story / character study. The plot was a little weak (misfortune after misfortune, etc.,......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Beric was not born to be drowned. In the wake of a severe storm, he is found by a tribesman washed up on the shore, clasped between his two dead parents. His own child having just recently died, the tribesman takes young Roman Beric back to his wife and he becomes their son. But just as he was not b......more

Goodreads review by Nicky

This didn't pull together the way I expected at all. I expected Lucilla to have a bigger part to play, and for Beric to find out about his real parents somehow, and... just for him to find a neat space just made for him where he would belong. But it's better the way Sutcliff wrote it, of course, wit......more