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Small Island

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By (author): Andrea Levy

This edition is the prescribed text for the English Mastery Secondary programme.

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.

Andrea Levy's epic novel Small Island, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. It premiered at the National Theatre, London, in April 2019, directed by Rufus Norris.

'Honest, skilful, thoughtful and important. This is Andrea Levy's big book' Guardian on Andrea Levy's Small Island

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Product Details
  • Weight: 158g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Apr 2019
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781848428515

About Andrea Levy

Multi-award-winning writer Helen Edmundson has adapted many novels for the stage including Coram Boy for the National Theatre. Her original plays include Queen Anne and The Heresy of Love (both for the RSC) Mary Shelley The Clearing and Mother Teresa is Dead. Andrea Levy's novels include Every Light in the House Burnin' Never Far from Nowhere Fruit of the Lemon and The Long Song. Small Island won a number of prizes including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel and Book of the Year Awards.

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