In 1957 Lewis Aldridge, newly released from prison, returns home to Waterford, a suburban town outside London.
Nobody is surprised that Gilbert\'s wife counters convention, but the entire community is shocked when, after one of their jaunts, Lewis comes back wi.
A decade earlier his father\'s homecoming at war\'s end was greeted with far less apprehension by the staid, tightly knit community--thanks to Gilbert Aldridge\'s easy acceptance of suburban ritual and routine.
He is nineteen years old.
In 1957 Lewis Aldridge, newly released from prison, returns home to Waterford, a suburban town outside London