Content with her life in England and delighted with her first job in the costume department of BBC television, Faith Jackson is stunned when her parents announce that they are moving 'home' to Jamaica, an announcement that threatens F...

This prizewinning novel--the first of Andrea Levy's to be published in the US--about Jamaicans in England takes place in the 1940s. Gilbert, a veteran of the RAF, and Hortense, a teacher, get married and move to London so he can go to...

THE AUTHOR OF SMALL ISLAND TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICASmall Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as "a triumph" (S...