By Andrea Levy...I heard a book discussion on the BBC World Book Club and it made me want to read the book. I recommend the BBC World Book Club to anyone who is looking to read international authors. I have found quite a few books this way. However, know that if you listen to the book club you will hear about the whole book...although I would argue it isn't the same as reading it yourself! http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wbc/ Here is a link if you are interested!
But, I found that this book was very interesting. Gilbert is from Jamaica and has come to England to fight in World War 2...Queenie is an Englishwoman who is renting her rooms to get by after the war...and Hortense is Gilbert's wife who comes to live in England with her husband. There is much in this book, racism, relationships, war, and colonialism. The characters and well developed and you empathize with them as they make their way through a post war England.
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