Small Island

 Helen Edmundson (author), Andrea Levy (author) 

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.

Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 – the year that HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.

Small Island was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2019, in an acclaimed production directed by Rufus Norris. This revised edition of the play was published alongside the revival of the production in 2022.

Andrea Levy (1956–2019) was an English author best known for the novels Small Island (2004) and The Long Song (2010). She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nick Hern Books; stage version edition (3 Mar. 2022)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1839040764
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.07 x 0.64 x 19.69 cm