Title: Small Island (play)
Content:  Small Island is a 2019 play by Helen Edmundson based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Andrea Levy. It tells the deeply connected stories of three people against the backdrop of the complex history of the United Kingdom and Jamaica. It premiered at the National Theatre in 2019 to critical acclaim.
Title: Small Island (novel)
Content:  For adaptations, see Small Island (TV series) and Small Island (play). Not to be confused with Notes from a Small Island. Small Island is a 2004 prize-winning novel by British author Andrea Levy, her fourth novel.
Title: Small Island (novel)
Content:  It was published by Headline Review to critical success. On 5 November 2019 BBC News included Small Island on its list of the 100 most influential novels. It was described in The Guardian by Mike Phillips as Levy's "big book". Levy said in 2004: "When I started Small Island I didn’t intend to write about the war. I wanted to start in 1948 with two women, one white, one black, in a house in Earls Court, but when I asked myself, 'Who are these people and how did they get here?' I realised that 1948 was so very close to the war that nothing made sense without it. If every writer in Britain were to write about the 
Title: Small Island (TV series)
Content:  Small Island is a two-part 2009 BBC One television drama adapted from the 2004 novel of the same title by Andrea Levy. The programme stars Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson as joint respective female protagonists Hortense Roberts and Queenie Bligh, two women who struggle to fulfil their personal ambitions and dreams amidst the chaos of World War II London and Jamaica. The drama was developed by producers Joanna Anderson and Vicky Licorish of AL Films, after having optioned Levy's novel. The script was first written by Sarah Williams and later amended by Paula Milne. It was directed by John Alexander (who also directed the BBC's 2008 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility). The drama consists of two 90-minute episodes that premiered on 6 December 2009, subsequently being shown in the United States on PBS as part of the channel's Masterpiece Classic Collection beginning on 18 April 2010.
Title: Small Island (play)
Content:  Small Island premiered in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre, London in 2019. Previews began on 17 April, with an official opening on 1 May, and the production ran until 10 August. The production was directed by Rufus Norris. As well as selling out its run at the National Theatre, it was broadcast to cinemas as part of National Theatre Live on 30 May 2019. Andrea Levy, who wrote the novel on which the play is based, died in February 2019, just a few months before the play premiered. The playwright, Helen Edmundson, called working with Levy 'a joy and a privilege', saying: "Like her books, she was uncompromising and funny, wise and honest. There was nothing I couldn’t 
Title: Small Island (play)
Content:  The play is published by Nick Hern Books.
Title: Small Island (TV series)
Content: Naomie Harris as Hortense Roberts Ruth Wilson as Queenie Bligh David Oyelowo as Gilbert Joseph Benedict Cumberbatch as Bernard Bligh Ashley Walters as Michael Roberts Nikki Amuka-Bird as Celia Langley ; Hugh Quarshie as Narrator / adult Michael junior ; Karl Johnson as Arthur Bligh ; Shaun Parkes as Winston/ Kenneth ; Jonathan Harden as Postal Worker  Born out of wedlock in an illegitimate, but not loveless, liaison between her affluent Jamaican father and an illiterate farm girl, Hortense is brought up by her father's cousin as playmate to his son, Michael. After Michael's return from boarding-school, Hortense realises her 
Title: Small Island (novel)
Content: Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004. ; Whitbread Book of the Year in 2004. ; Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) in 2005. The novel has won a number of prizes including:
Title: Small Island (novel)
Content:  The novel is based on four main characters—Hortense, Queenie, Gilbert and Bernard—and the story is told from each of their points of view. Mainly set in 1948, the plot focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants, who, escaping economic hardship on their own "small island", move to England, the Mother Country, for which the men have fought during World War II. While the novel focuses on the narratives of Gilbert and Hortense as they adjust to life in England, after a reception that is not quite the warm embrace that they had hoped for, the interracial relationship between Queenie and Michael is central to the plot and the connections that are established between all of the characters. As the story is narrated from various viewpoints, it is achronological, skipping around to discuss each character's life before the outbreak of WWII.
Title: Small Island (novel)
Content:  years there would still be stories to be told, and none of us would have come close to what really happened. It was such an amazing schism in the middle of a century. And Caribbean people got left out of the telling of that story, so I am attempting to put them back into it. But I am not telling it from only a Jamaican point of view. I want to tell stories from the black and white experience. It is a shared history." In 2009, The Guardian selected Small Island as one of the defining books of the decade. It won three awards: the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Orange Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Question: Who is the author of Small Island?
Answer: Andrea Levy.