Cheap Day Return - R F Delderfield

He had been away for more than thirty years.

Kent Stuart had left the West Country town of Redcliffe Bay shamefaced and guilty after the scandal that had cost him his youth and happiness.

Now he was going back to a place he hardly recognised any more. Going back to see if he could come to terms with the events of a painful, emotional year before the war when a boy of twenty and a mature woman had been swept up in a passionate affair that had scandalised a town and ended in tragedy.