" Holly Kyte, The Telegraph " The Long Song is above all the female version of emancipation, told in vivid, vigorous language in which comedy, contempt and a fierce poetry are at work. She doesn't need tothe events and characters speak loud and clear for themselves. Levy's handling of slavery is characteristically authentic, resonant and imaginative. This sensational novel her first since the Orange Prizewinning Small Island, recently adapted for the BBCtells the life story of July, a slave girl living on a sugar plantation in 1830s Jamaica just as emancipation is juddering into action. Wilson, Reader's Digest "In The Long Song, Andrea Levy explores her Jamaican heritage more completely than ever before. As well as being beautifully written The Long Song is a thoroughly researched historical novel that is both powerful and heartbreaking., Praise for The Long Song " This is a terrific book: beautifully written and imagined, and full of surprises.
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