![]() “ 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 never sermonises.” -Holly Kyte, The Telegraph Levy's handling of slavery is characteristically authentic, resonant and imaginative. This sensational novel-her first since the Orange Prize-winning Small Island, recently adapted for the BBC-tells the life story of July, a slave girl living on a sugar plantation in 1830s Jamaica just as emancipation is juddering into action. “In The Long Song, Andrea Levy explores her Jamaican heritage more completely than ever before. ![]() “This is a terrific book: beautifully written and imagined, and full of surprises. ![]()
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