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Small Island

Small Island
Small Island
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Book Specifications

SKUID
:
G-342
ISBN
:
9780755307500
Published Year
:
2004
Author
:
Andrea Levy
Publisher
:
Headline Book Publishing
Book Condition
:
Used Good
Condition Note
:
This used book is in good condition. Pages are yellowish color.
Book Binding Type
:
Paper Back
Language
:
English
No. of Pages
:
533
Dimensions
:
19.5 x 12.5 cm
Availability
:
In Stock

Book Description

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 with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, 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 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 city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.
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, prejudice, war and love, with a superb lightness of touch and generosity of spirit.