Last updated: 5 february, 2010 - 17:17 GMT
Andrea Levy
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Winner of the UK's Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, the Orange Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Andrea Levy's Small Island is a heart-warming and thought-provoking tale of love, friendship and immigration during World War II. Set in London in 1948 it focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants, who, escaping economic hardship on their own "small island," move to England, the Mother Country, for which the men have fought during World War II. Their reception is not quite the warm embrace that they have hoped for…
Harriett Gilbert interviewed the author at Bush House in London in front of a live audience.
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