From the author of Three Fevers, Angler's Moon and Love in the Sun.

The village kids call him Worms; he and his family are 'foreigners', comparatively new to the village and never to become part of this tight-knit community in the early 1900s.

Foreigners is the story of a boy's struggle to become accepted, a sensitive study of loneliness and of a childhood spent in a demanding environment. Here, Leo Walmsley has captured the atmosphere of a tough, intolerant village, with vivid characters set against a backdrop of rugged coastline.

But perhaps the intolerance isn't all one-sided...