The Outcast

Sadie Jones (born 1967) is an English novelist best known for her debut novel The Outcast (2008), which won the Costa First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Raised in London as the daughter of Jamaican-born poet and screenwriter Evan Jones and British actress Joanna Jones, she worked as a screenwriter for 15 years before achieving success as a novelist with works including Small Wars, The Uninvited Guests, Fallout, The Snakes, and Amy & Lan. Penguin Random House