by Andrea Levy (Author), Andrea Levy (Author)
Hortense shared Gilbert's dream of leaving Jamaica and coming to England to start a better life. But when she at last joins her husband, she is shocked by London's shabbiness and horrified at the way the English live. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. Queenie's neighbours do not approve of her choice of tenants, and neither would her husband, were he there. Through the stories of these people, Small Island explores a point in England's past when the country began to change.
Format: hardcover
Publisher: Headline Review
Published:
ISBN 10: 0755307496
ISBN 13: 9780755307494
Prizes: Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction 2004. Shortlisted for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010.