Small Island

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Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction as well as many other awards Andrea Levy's SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought & profoundly moving novel of empire prejudice war & love. It has now been adapted into a major BBC TV drama. It is 1948 & England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street London the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie & knock at her door. Gilbert's wife Hortense too had longed to leave Jamaica & start a better life in Engl&. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby decrepit & far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was...