Andrea Levy also wrote Small Island, the story of Jamaicans coming to live in England with great expectations about the time of the Great War. It was a beautifully crafted book, with sensitive and wonderful characters, that deals with hope, and dreams, ambitions and disappointments. It was made into a terrific mini series a few years back.
This book is not as subtle as Small Island. It is the chronological retelling of a woman’s life story and charts the end of the slave trade on the British owned sugar plantations in Jamaica. The main character July is a feisty young woman at the beginning but there is a great chunk of her life missing and when we get her back again she has changed. I wanted to know what circumstances changed her, how she negotiated those years in between and more.
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