Böcker av Andrea Levy

The multi-award-winning, million copy bestseller... 'the literary equivalent of a switch-back ride' - Sunday Times

'Small Island is a hard act to follow, but in her new book Levy has moved into top gear' - Observer

A superb collection of writing from multi-award-winning, million-copy bestseller Andrea Levy.

The story of a young slave girl who lives through the final turbulent days of slavery on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica. Adapted from Andrea Levy's award-winning novel.

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.Andrea Levy's epic novel Small Island, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 - the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. It premiered at the National Theatre, London, in April 2019, directed by Rufus Norris.'Honest, skilful, thoughtful and important. This is Andrea Levy's big book' Guardian on Andrea Levy's Small Island

A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up

The third and most ambitious novel from this unique and acclaimed writer, FRUIT OF THE LEMON establishes Andrea Levy alongside Arundhati Roy and Meera Syal in the first rank of British fiction.

An emotional debut novel, both funny and moving, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction