Andrea Levy
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of Small Island, "a bittersweet exploration of an outsider's experience of British culture" (Bookmarks).
Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC television, and to be sharing a house with friends, Faith is full of hope and expectation. But when her parents announce that they are moving...
Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC television, and to be sharing a house with friends, Faith is full of hope and expectation. But when her parents announce that they are moving...
2) Small island
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Physical Desc
441 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until a recently transplanted English widow decides to move her into the great house and rename her. She remains bound to the plantation despite her "freedom." The arrival of a young English overseen dramatically changes life in the great house.
5) Small island
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 3 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives of two couples, one Jamaican and the other English, whose worlds intertwine in post-World War II Britain, at a turning point in the long relationship between the two countries. It is a story of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
