Six Stories and an Essay by Andrea Levy

Six Stories and an Essay by Andrea Levy

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

It's a magnificent achievement - and - the best compliment one novelist can give another, made me jealous

SMALL ISLAND is a great read, delivering the sort of pleasure which has been the stock-in-trade of a long line of English novelistsIt's honest, skilful, thoughtful and important - Guardian

What makes Levy's writing so appealing is her even-handedness. All her characters can be weak, hopeless, brave, good, bad - whatever their colour. The writing is rigorous and the bittersweet ending, with its unexpected twist, touching... People can retain great dignity, however small their island - Independent on Sunday

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents who came to Britain in 1948. After attending writing workshops when she was in her mid-thirties, Levy began to write the novels that she, as a young woman, had always wanted to read - entertaining novels that reflect the experiences of black Britons, which look at Britain and its changing population and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean.

She has written six books, including SMALL ISLAND, which was the unique winner of both the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread book of the Year, in addition to the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best'. Her most recent novel, THE LONG SONG, won the Walter Scott Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781472222664
ISBN 10	1472222660
Title	Six Stories and an Essay
Author	Andrea Levy
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Headline Publishing Group
Year published	2014-10-23
Number of pages	144
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