5/9/2023 0 Comments The long story andrea levy![]() Her first novel, Every Light in the House Burnin’ (1994), is semi-autobiographical, depicting the difficulties faced and sometimes overcome by a Jamaican family in 1960s London. Levy’s previous novels had gathered a smaller circle of admirers who had a particular interest in the experience of Caribbean immigrants in Britain. Ten years later, it was voted the Best of the Best Orange prize novels, and this May the National Theatre is due to mount a stage version. Intertwining the stories of two couples, one white British, the other Jamaican, and their struggles to survive and come to terms with one another in Britain during and after the second world war, Small Island was awarded the Orange prize, the Whitbread prize and, the following year, the Commonwealth literature prize. ![]() ![]() Andrea Levy, who has died of cancer aged 62, gained wide recognition as a writer with the publication of her fourth novel, Small Island, in 2004. ![]()
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