Andrea Levy - Small Island
Andrea Levy discusses her prize-winning book Small Island with Harriet Gilbert and the World Book Club audience.
Andrea Levy discusses her novel Small Island with a studio audience, and the author revisits the West London setting of her multi-prize-winning novel.
A thought-provoking tale of love, friendship and immigration set in Earl's Court in 1948, Small Island focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants, who, escaping economic hardship on their own 'small island', move to England.
Once in the mother country, however, for which the men had fought and died for during World War II, their reception is not quite the warm embrace that they had hoped for.
Join Harriett Gilbert, readers in the studio and around the globe and Andrea Levy both in and out of the studio for World Book Club.
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- Sat 12 May 2012 21:05GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
- Sun 13 May 2012 02:05GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
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