The Humpherys Family

Outcast

Record Added: 3/10/2014
Author 
Illustrator 
Setting England
Topic Historical Fiction
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year 1963
Age 13-YA   Pages 229
Description Printed dustjacket
 
Outcast is the story of a young boy named Beric, who is raised in the village of a celtic tribe living in Britain at the time of the Roman Conquest. However, Beric is actually a Roman child, whose parents died in a shipwreck and who was rescued by a kind-hearted Celt and then adopted. But when the village has a series of bad turns, the local druid manages to convince the chief that Beric is the cause of all the trouble. 

Exiled from the only life he has known, Beric must learn to survive in the harsh Roman world that is so different from his own. And things take a turn for the worse when Beric falls into the hands of a slave trader! Outcast is a refreshing historical novel that gives startling insight into the ancient cultures of Britain.