Small Island

Andrea Levy · 2004 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

In 1948 a Jamaican RAF veteran and his wife Hortense take rooms in the London house of Queenie Bligh, whose husband has not come home from the war. Four voices tell of the Windrush generation's arrival and the country that failed to expect it.

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