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Small Island: Winner of the 'Best of the Best' Orange Prize by Andrea Levy (2004, Paperback)

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Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. Andrea is the winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. by Andrea Levy. - Evening StandardWhat makes Levy's writing so appealing is her even-handedness.

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It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn t know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It s desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.

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Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780755307500
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87918562

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Book Title
Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the Best' Orange Prize
Author
Andrea Levy
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
True Stories, Books, World War II
Publication Year
2004
Type
Novel
Genre
Historical
Number of Pages
560 Pages

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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
128mm
Item Weight
380g

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Andrea Levy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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4 out of 5 stars
by bond.helen28 Jun, 2018
Enjoyable and thought provoking
Although it is fiction, this book highlights the plight of the Windrush generation, and provokes a lot of thought regarding the way black people were, and in some cases still are, being treated. It also brings out how cultural differences can lead to misunderstandings between different cultures, and how intolerant and ignorant people can be towards these differences. Despite covering some very sad and anger- provoking scenarios, there is a great deal of laugh-out loud humour in the book, which lightens it enormously. It is not a can't-put-it down book, but it is a book that I did want to keep going back to; a quiet read that I wanted to keep reading. The end came unexpectedly though- I wanted to know more!
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5 out of 5 stars
by bina87516 Mar, 2017
Social history of war and prejudice
I loved this book for its attempt at insights about how immigrants and the British came to live together after World War 2. Prejudice was bad but not universally. Living with difference was relatively new in Britain apart from perhaps the huge prejudice against the Irish. The book follows the lives of a handful of characters and we see things through their eyes. I would recommend it.
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4 out of 5 stars
by splatterbrush06 Apr, 2017
Hidden history
I loved this story, for it's great characters - funny, sad, heartbreaking, and for revealing a part of our history that I new little of. The storyline grabbed me and I couldn't wait to pick it up again after each session. Post war Britain and immigration, a story tellers cookie jar.
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4 out of 5 stars
by geldales13 Feb, 2020
Am I really welcome here?
A well written account in the form of a novel highlighting the difficulties and obstacles faced by the new arrivals from the Caribbean in coming to a society geared to the ambitions and priorities of a white indigenous population in the UK.
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by nowornever-uk17 Jun, 2022
Small island
Very well written book , the author captures the voices of all the characters beautifully.
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Small Island: Winner of the 'Best of the Best' Orange Prize by Andrea Levy (2004, Paperback)

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Hidden history

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