{"product_id":"small-islandbooks","title":"Small Island","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Island\u003c\/i\u003e by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of the \u003ci\u003eEmpire Windrush \u003c\/i\u003egeneration, it was selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A great read... honest, skilful, thoughtful and important' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueenie Bligh's neighbours don't approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, she has little choice in the matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGilbert Joseph was one of the many Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight Hitler. But when he returns to England as a civilian he doesn't receive the welcome he was expecting, and it's desperation that drives him to knock at Queenie's door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, who for years has longer for a better life in England, soon joins him. But London is far from the golden city of her dreams, and even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Island\u003c\/i\u003e explores a point in England's past when the country began to change. In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a superb lightness of touch and generosity of spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An engrossing read - slyly funny, passionately angry and wholly involving' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Gives us a new urgent take on our past' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levy, Andrea","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44149076033760,"sku":"","price":7.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/902725.jpg?v=1692722560","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/small-islandbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}