Small Island
(Andrea Levy)
Book Review
?Prejudice and love?
Small Island has won several awards including the Whitebread Book of the Year and the Orange Prize for Fiction and it is easy to see why. It is a riveting drama set in post war England.
Gilbert Joseph is one of many Jamaican men who joined the RAF (Royal Air Force) to fight for Britain against Hitler. Both Gilbert and his wife Hortenese see the Mother Country as their ticket to building a wonderful new life for themselves. But when they arrive in London in 1948 they are surprised to not be greeted with open arms by the people of their Mother Country which they have dreamed about their whole lives. They are disillusioned to see a broken down post war city.
Queenie Bligh is an Englishwoman whose husband goes missing in action during the war. To fill up the lonely big house she takes in tenants. But the fact that her tenants are mostly black does not go down well with her neighbours. Who believe that these blacks are bringing down the neighbourhood.
Andrea Levy is a Jamaican author who lives in London. She uses dry humour to tell a decadent story about prejudice, love and tolerance in a time when England is undergoing a change. This book is very rich in detail which some might find as an overload of information. But it is none the less a great read.
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