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''Lucas'' is a 2002 novel by Kevin Brooks about a teenager named Cait who lives on an isolated island off the coast of England and befriends outsider Lucas, eventually falling in love with him only to see the island's prejudices come to life. ==Plot summary== The story opens as fifteen-year-old Cait recounts events occurring a year before on her small island home, Hale, which is roughly four miles long and two miles across at its greatest extent. She begins her story by explaining when she first met Lucas, a mysterious teenager who has traveled to the island to explore and live for a short time period. On the same day that she first sees Lucas, her brother returns home and she is nearly assaulted by another islander, Jamie Tait. However, Lucas is not accepted into the island community easily, due to the discrimination he receives at the hands of the town folk. He works a few odd jobs, but is the victim of attempted assault, forcing him to defend himself and earn a negative reputation. Primarily this comes from Jamie Tait, a university student and popular islander from a wealthy family. The negative behavior escalates when Lucas rescues a young girl from drowning during a town festival, but is met with accusations of molestation. Lucas is forced into hiding. However, he feels an urge to visit Cait one last time. Unfortunately, Jamie has decided to frame Lucas for the rape, assault and attempted murder of a promiscuous islander named Angel, who had befriended Bill, Cait's old best friend. The novel climaxes as the islanders attempt to capture Lucas, who is innocent of the crime. When islanders came to the McCann's house, knowing Lucas was there, Lucas was told to stay with Caitlyn in hiding as Dom and John (Cait's brother and father) went to talk to the villagers. Lucas and Caitlyn, however, can see what's happening through. When Lucas saw the villagers continued to protest and threaten the McCanns, Lucas decided to take the problem in his own hands. Lucas said goodbye to Caitlyn and told her to stay in place. Even though, Caitlyn protested, she obeyed. After a few talks with the islanders, Lucas turned around and looked at the hole where Caitlyn was peeking through and waved goodbye, and ran, the islanders chasing him. When Caitlyn saw this, she went out of hiding and ran as fast as she can just to get to Lucas. When Lucas got to the mudflats, which is very dangerous, since one wrong step can lead to death by sinking, he didn't stop while the villagers stayed in place. When Caitlyn got there she took the first step, but didn't get through all the way to Lucas, because Dom and John took a hold of her, because it was deadly, leaving Caitlyn thrashing around and shouting 'Lucas'. Lucas, however didn't responded and just stepped in one of the mudflats and sunk, leaving Caitlyn. Caitlyn, depressed, didn't talk as much and ate as much for days. People visited her like Simon and Bill, though she was still as glum and didn't mind them much. The police officer came and gave them Lucas' things and his notebook, he said that everything was clear because of it and lucas' bad reputation was recovered. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucas (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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