Cheap Day Return - Softcover

'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' Life Magazine * Life Magazine * It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well * Books and Bookmen * Sheer, wonderful storytelling * Chicago Tribune * R F Delderfield is a born storyteller * Sunday Mirror * Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming * Evening Standard *

Kent Stuart left the West Country town of Redcliffe Bay more than thirty years ago, pursued by the guilt and shame of a scandal that cost him his youth and happiness. Having led an exciting life as a photographer, Kent now returns to find a town that bears little physical resemblance to the one he left so many years before. Yet in spite of this, memories come flooding back of a young man swept up in a passionate affair with an older woman, which ended in tragedy. And Kent must decide whether, by revisiting Redcliffe Bay, he can come to terms with the past and start anew.