Andrea Levy facts

Andrea Levy was an English author best remembered for penning down the 2004 novel ‘Small
Island’ and the 2010 novel ‘The Long Song’. Both novels garnered her various recognitions and
honors, including the Orange Prize for Fiction and Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Small Island, written by Andrea Levy in 2004, is a story about Hortense, a Jamaican woman, who
sails to Britain to join her husband, Gilbert, and start her teaching career there. She finds Gilbert
renting a room in Queenie’s house, which doesn’t meet her expectations of British life.

Andrea Levy is in the photo above and she has made many novels books and others that have
inspired others in live to prosper their dreams as an author.This shows how much of a role
model she was to others around the world.