{"product_id":"small-island-isbn-9781035447572","title":"Small Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eAfter she passed away on the 14th of February 2019, the \u003ci\u003eBookseller\u003c\/i\u003e wrote: 'Andrea Levy will be remembered as a novelist who broke out of the confines assigned to her by prejudice to become a both a forerunner of Black British excellence and a great novelist by any standards.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Born in England to Jamaican parents who came to Britain in 1948, Andrea Levy wrote the novels that she had always wanted to read as a young woman, engaging books that reflect the experiences of black Britons and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean. She was described by BBC News as 'a writer who tackled important social issues . . . her writing . . . witty, humane and often moving, and full of richly drawn characters'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She was the author of six books, including SMALL ISLAND, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Whitbread book of the Year, and was adapted for TV and for the stage, by the National Theatre. It was selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. Her most recent novel, THE LONG SONG, won the Walter Scott Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was adapted for TV by the BBC. | \u003cb\u003eA million-copy bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Queenie Bligh's neighbours don't approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, she has little choice in the matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gilbert Joseph was one of the many Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight Hitler. But when he returns to England as a civilian he doesn't receive the welcome he was expecting, and it's desperation that drives him to knock at Queenie's door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, who for years has longer for a better life in England, soon joins him. But London is far from the golden city of her dreams, and even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Island\u003c\/i\u003e explores a point in England's past when the country began to change. In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a superb lightness of touch and generosity of spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A great read . . . honest, skilful, thoughtful and important' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'An engrossing read - slyly funny, passionately angry and wholly involving' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Gives us a new urgent take on our past' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With an introduction by Monique Roffey","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52119321510117,"sku":"NP9781035447572","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/small-island-isbn-9781035447572","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}