Cheap Day Return is a 1967 novel by the British writer R.F.

A man with the name Kent Stuart, once a small town photographer, returns to his home of Redcliffe Bay, in the West Country, after an absence of thirty years.

He left it as a fugitive from what then seemed to all concerned a shameful scandal; he finds it vastly changed and unrecognizable.

This Cheap Day Return is his own way of effecting a personal adjustment and coming to terms with the haunting memories of what happened to him here in the year 1932, when he was caught up in a passionate affair with Lorna Morney-Sutcliffe, the wife of the most prominent citizen of Redcliffe Bay.

It cost him his youth and happiness; it lost him the girl he was going to marry, Esta Wallace, the local Carnival Queen.