The village kids call him Worms; he and his family are 'foreigners' – people who are 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. . .