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Author | Andrea Levy |
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Language | English |
Published | 2004 |
Publisher | Headline Review |
Publication place | UK |
Awards | Orange Prize for Fiction Whitbread Book of the Year Commonwealth Writers' Prize |
Preceded by | Fruit of the Lemon |
Followed by | The Long Song |
Small Island is a novel written by British author Andrea Levy.
The novel, published in 2004, tells the story of post-war Caribbean migration through four narrators – Hortense and Gilbert, who migrate from Jamaica to London in 1948, and the English couple, Queenie and Bernard, in whose house in London Hortense and Gilbert find lodgings.