Product details
- ISBN 9781839040764
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.
Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 – the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.
Small Island was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2019, in an acclaimed production directed by Rufus Norris. This revised edition of the play was published alongside the revival of the production in 2022.
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 novel Small Island won the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as the Whitbread Novel and Book of the Year Awards. Her other novels include Every Light in the House Burnin’, Never Far from Nowhere, Fruit of the Lemon and The Long Song.
