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Andrea Levy - Small Island
World Book Club
English - May 12, 2012 19:06 - 53 minutes - 49 MB - ★★★★★ - 335 ratingsSociety & Culture books culture news health business entrepreneurship interview comedy politics productivity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.
(Image: Author Andrea Levy)