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Small island
Book • 2004
Small Island is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel that handles weighty themes such as empire, prejudice, war, and love with a lightness of touch and generosity of spirit.
The story is set in London in 1948 and jumps back in time to the Second World War, capturing the rapid cultural changes in post-war London.
It follows the lives of four main characters: Hortense, a black woman from Jamaica; Queenie, a white woman living in London; and their respective husbands, Gilbert and Bernard.
The novel highlights the racial prejudice faced by Jamaican immigrants in England and the complex interactions between characters from different backgrounds.
It won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread Book of the Year, and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize.
The story is set in London in 1948 and jumps back in time to the Second World War, capturing the rapid cultural changes in post-war London.
It follows the lives of four main characters: Hortense, a black woman from Jamaica; Queenie, a white woman living in London; and their respective husbands, Gilbert and Bernard.
The novel highlights the racial prejudice faced by Jamaican immigrants in England and the complex interactions between characters from different backgrounds.
It won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread Book of the Year, and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize.
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Mentioned by Annabel Crabb when referring to Andrea Levy's long-hand notes for the book 'Small Island'.
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Ep 264 - Writers Revealed
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Jen Offord in an interview with playwright Helen Edmondson , who adapted Levy's novel for the National Theatre.
Jen Offord in an interview with playwright Helen Edmondson , who adapted Levy's novel for the National Theatre.
SIM Ep 237, Pod 75: The fight, the island and the fight on an island
