Yellow board binding with gilt title and leaves design on the spine and front board.

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This is a wonderful story and brilliantly told. The “heroine is living with her son in the present day but is telling of her life as a slave. It is very poignant and I would highly recommend it.

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. She is the author of four other novels, including Every Light in the House Burning (1995), Never Far from Nowhere (1996), Fruit of the Lemon (1999), and Small Island (2005). Small Island won both the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best. Selling over a million copies worldwide, Small Island was also adapted for the small screen in a critically acclaimed series that aired on BBC and will debut on PBS’s Masterpiece Classic on April 18 and 25, 2010. Levy lives in London.