Small Island
Levy Andrea
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Tinder Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Description: 533 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.
Publishers Description: It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Blighs neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesnt know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she doGilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. Its desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door.Gilberts wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was
ISBN: 9780755307500
(219269)
