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BITTERSWEET TALE OF POST-WAR BRITAIN
SMALL ISLAND By Andrea Levy BlackInBritain rates SMALL ISLAND 8/10 SMALL ISLAND won Andrea Levy the Whitbread Book of the Year award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. It also catapulted her to literary stardom and rightly so. It tells the tale, from various perspectives, of the lives of a few Caribbean people settling in post-war Britain, from frosty welcomes to hopes dashed. It explores this through the eyes of characters such as RAF veteran Gilbert and his self-seeking wife Hortense and their landlady Queenie. All Levy's characters are convincing and the story and backdrop are engaging. The author allows you to hear the characters and understand their very inner selves. Without a doubt, you'll love some character, hate others and be shocked by a reality shrouded in the creativity of fiction. What Levy achieves is providing a window into the world of a lost generation, or at least a generation whose experiences are lost on many of today's young Black Brits. Those are the experiences of our grandparents and great grandparents and while amusing in some place, it saddens in others. This is a must read for anyone who has every treated the Windrush generation with any level of incredulity. This very little-explored episode in British history is fascinating and in this form is nothing short of brilliant. Buy this book
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THERE AINT NO BLACK IN THE UNION JACK By Paul Gilroy BIB RATINGALL ISLAND 7/10 Although a bit dated tbread Book of the Year award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. It also catapulted her to literary stardom and rightly so. It tells the tale, from various perspectives, of the lives of a few Caribbean people settling in post-war Britain, from frosty welcomes to hopes dashed. It explores this through the eyes of characters such as RAF veteran Gilbert and his self-seeking wife Hortense and their landlady Queenie. All Levy's characters are convincing and the story and backdrop are engaging. The author allows you to hear the characters and understand This is a must read for anyone who has every treated the Windrush generation with any level of incredulity. This very little-explored episode in British history is fascinating and in this form is nothing short of brilliant. Buy this book		Small Island By Andrea Levy BlackInBritain rates SMALL ISLAND 8/10 SMALL ISLAND won Andrea Levy the Whitbread Book of the Year award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. It also catapulted her to literary stardom and rightly so. It tells the tale, from various perspectives, of the lives of a few Caribbean people settling in post-war Britain, from frosty welcomes to hopes dashed. It explores this through the eyes of characters such as RAF veteran Gilbert and his self-seeking wife Hort
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