![]() ![]() ![]() But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. Andrea Levys parents travelled from Jamaica to England on the now famous SS Empire Windrush in 1948. In her narratives, Levy writes not only about her personal story as a second-generation migrant, her Jamaican as well as black-British heritage, her identity conict, racial awareness and. ![]() She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. Born in London in 1956, Levy draws on the postwar period more broadly within her fictional work. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. ![]() Her fourth novel, Small Island, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, and the. Categories Adult Fiction, Historical Novels Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. ![]()
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