Small island
By: Andrea Levy ; foreword by Gary Younge
Contributors: Younge, Gary, writer of preface
Edition: 10th anniversary edition.
Publisher: Tinder Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9781472211064
Subjects: Jamaicans; Fiction; Social conditions; Race relations
Description: Returning to England after the war Gilbert Joseph is treated very differently now that he is no longer in an RAF uniform. Joined by his wife Hortense, he rekindles a friendship with Queenie who takes in Jamaican lodgers. Can their dreams of a better life in England overcome the prejudice they face?
Notes: Orange Prize for Fiction, 2004.

Whitbread Book of the Year, 2004.