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SMALL ISLAND: WINNER OF THE 'BEST OF THE BEST' ORANGE PRIZE
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Andrea Levy |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
075530750X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780755307500 |
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HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
13 September, 2004 |
| Pages: |
560 |
| Description: |
The multi-award-winning, million copy bestseller... 'the literary equivalent of a switch-back ride' - Sunday Times |
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Small Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Naomie Harris, its enduring appeal will captivate fans of Maya Angelou and Zadie Smith. 'A great read... honest, skilful, thoughtful and important' - GuardianIt 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. 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 and knock at her door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was... |
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UK |
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Tinder Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction 2004
Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 2004
Runner-up for Reading Group Book of the Year 2007
Short-listed for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010 |
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