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Small Island Summary. Next. Prologue: Queenie. The novel opens as Queenie, one of the protagonists, visits the British Empire Exhibition as a young girl. She goes with her parents, who run a butchery together, and is chaperoned by two of their employees, Emily and Graham.
Small Island – Andrea Levy. About the book. It is 1948, and 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.
Apr 1, 2010 · 4.4 5,662 ratings. See all formats and editions. An international bestseller. Andrea Levy's Small Island won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Aug 5, 2010 · 2004. Topics. Cultural Literacy and Humanities, Reading Level-Adult. Publisher. London : Review. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. In 1948, four very different Britons are thrown together in a central-London terrace.
Apr 1, 2005 · Andrea Levy's award-winning novel, Small Island, deftly brings two bleak families into crisp focus. First a Jamaican family, including the well-intentioned Gilbert, who can never manage to say or do exactly the right thing; Romeo Michael, who leaves a wake of women in his path; and finally, Hortense, whose primness belies her huge ambition to ...
Apr 30, 2009 · Small Island explores a point in England's past when the country began to change. In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire,...
Apr 30, 2009 · Small Island. Andrea Levy. Review, 2004 - Historical fiction - 441 pages. Winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. A Picador Original Trade Paperback. Hortense Joseph arrives in London...
