Barry Dempster’s The Outside World (2014)

2014-12-08T09:39:47-05:00

The Tedley family is at the centre of the world for the teenage narrator of Barry Dempster’s novel. “How easy for a bungalow and a Texaco station to become the entire world.” This is Scarborough. This is 1966. But this is not a staid and predictable universe as readers soon