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Small Island by best-selling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as much other awards, like the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Naomie Harris, its enduring appeal will captivate fans of Maya Angelou and Zadie Smith. It is 1948, and England is dealing with a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he'll come back in any way. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the number of thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a much better life in England. But when she joins him she actually is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and definately not the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was....
