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	VETAS DIGITAL: THIS IS MY ENGLAND / Andrea Levy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Levy's most recent novel, Small Island (2004), set in 1948, explores the interaction between a fl couple, Gilbert, a former RAF recruit, who has returned to Britain on the SS Windrush, and his Jamaican wife Hortense, and a white couple: Queenie, their landlady, and her recently demobbed husband, Bernard.
		Andrea Levy has achieved literary success in a relatively short space of time with her first three novels Every Light in the House Burnin' (1994), Never Far from Nowhere (1996) and Fruit of the Lemon (1999).
		Levy is an English novelist who remains defiantly outside the limits of Englishness 'Saying that I'm English doesn't mean I want to be assimilated; to take on the white culture to the exclusion of all others...
	vetasdigital.blogspot.com /2006/07/this-is-my-england-andrea-levy.html (4129 words)

	washingtonpost.com - Live Online
		Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents, and says her fiction has always been about being fl and British.
		Andrea Levy: Yes, SMALL ISLAND should be published early in 2005, either in February or March, by Picador U.S. That was arranged before I was given the Orange Prize, but after I was short-listed.
		Andrea Levy: The prize was originally set up because there was one year where the Booker Prize, the major prize in Britain, had no women at all on the short list, out of six.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/04/r_books_levy062404.htm (1940 words)

	R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Fall 2005 - A Small Island by Andrea Levy
		Though Levy brings her characters to conclusion, her finish is a surprise, with enough unresolved plot elements to suggest a possible sequel.
		Levy cleverly handles this expansiveness of time, geography, and character by employing a sequence of chapters that cut back and forth across time, with each consisting of the individual perspective of one person.
		Levy’s fictional evocation of the wide panoramas and local atmospheres of World War II—with their moments of tension, uncertainty, and, at times, release towards greater self-awareness—reminds us how the past, when skillfully interpreted, can hold lessons for the present.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2005fall/levy.shtml (751 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Late start, good results for Andrea Levy - Sunday \| May 29, 2005
		ACCORDING TO some, Andrea Levy came to writing late in life, having begun in her 30s.
		Levy was one of the authors slated to headline the 2005 Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, from May 27-29, reading from the Great Non-American Novel yesterday afternoon.
		Levy finds this "verbal place" difficult to deal with, because she fears being misrepresented.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20050529/ent/ent4.html (633 words)

	Clean sweep: Andrea Levy defines what it is to be black, British and a literary lioness Black Issues Book Review - Find ...
		Levy, a 48-year-old Londoner, wrote her earlier fiction using her experiences as a child of Jamaican immigrants growing up in the seat of power of the British Empire.
		Levy's father was among those on the Windrush, and that generation of fl colonials, like her parents, endured the white racism in their quest for a better existence than they had before on the former tropical island home.
		Levy's father and his twin brother served among the thousands of West Indians in the wartime Royal Air Force and were among the first to come to the Mother Country after the war.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_4_7/ai_n14858901 (925 words)

	Andrea Levy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Andrea Levy was born in London, England in 1956 to Jamaican parents.
		Andrea Levy has been a judge for the Saga Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
		While the scene may be anecdotal in terms of the novel as a whole, it is by 'provincialising' the trope of travel, that Levy begins to draw attention to some of the discrepancies and differences (in terms of class, gender and generation) that cut across the received histories of Black Britain.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth149 (861 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Author adds Whitbread to her Orange prize
		ANDREA Levy made literary history last night when she won the prestigious Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her novel Small Island.
		Levy, who already has this year’s Orange Prize for fiction under her belt, became the first author to be awarded both accolades.
		Levy was the public’s second choice, with 23 per cent, Fletcher came a close third with 19 per cent, Symmons won 18 per cent, while McCaughrean got 12 per cent.
	news.scotsman.com /entertainment.cfm?id=96162005 (753 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Small Island: Books: Andrea Levy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Perhaps Andrea Levy (like authors of her ilk) would have done better if she had spent as much time distilling her data as she did gathering it and demonstrated restraint by getting her message (if she had one!) acoss in a more oblique way or by weaving it into a proper, entertaining story.
		Levy uses an even-handed device of first-person narratives from the four principal characters, with the story unfolding in 1948 and the past.
		Andrea Levy's choice of words is often clumsy and lacking in finesse.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Small-Island-Andrea-Levy/dp/075530750X (1130 words)

	100 Great Black Britons - Andrea Levy
		Andrea Levy is a child of the Windrush.
		Andrea Levy did not begin writing until she was in her mid-thirties.
		After attending writing workshops Levy began to write the novels that she, as a young woman, had always wanted to read.
	www.100greatblackbritons.com /andrea_levy.html (339 words)

	Joseph Bruno Levy-Recollection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Levy were at a party in the Andrea Doria's main lounge.
		Levy received leg injuries when he was slapped on the back and slid across the boat, down the deck.
		Levy said that he was surprised that the Stockholm made it to port.
	www.andreadoria.org /Recollections/Levy (1162 words)

	Andrea Levy : Small Island : Book Review
		The daughter of immigrants who came from Jamaica to England in 1948, Levy imbues this novel with fine detail, both in her descriptions of the physical surroundings and in the emotional subtleties with which her characters react to their postwar lives.
		Andrea Levy was born in London in 1956, of Jamaican parents who migrated to England after the second world war.
		Andrea lives and works in London, which she uses for the setting in her novels.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/levy.htm (897 words)

	Small Island (0312424671) LEVY - Picador
		Levy's outstanding talent is her ability to control these upheavals.
		"Levy tells a good story, and she tells it wellâ”using narrative voices across time and space as she revisits the conventions of the historical novel and imagines the hopes and pains of the immigrant's saga anew.
		Levy's novel is no mere flight of fantasy, for it is rooted in the past and mired in the complicated stuff of empire.
	www.picadorusa.com /product/product.aspx?isbn=0312424671 (1360 words)

	Bookreporter.com - SMALL ISLAND by Andrea Levy
		Andrea Levy's Whitbread and Orange Prize-winning novel has emigrated from England to American shores with well-deserved ballyhoo.
		Levy has intricately woven the lives of four small islanders --- two from Jamaica, two from England --- into a tapestry of time and place so intimate and full of color that it lingers in the reader's memory long after closing the cover.
		Levy fleshes out these four characters with such clarity and purpose as to bring them fully to life in a story that swings back and forth from wartime to postwar England and Jamaica.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0312424671.asp (456 words)

	Small Island by Andrea Levy « Book Review « ReadySteadyBook - a literary site
		Andrea Levy has a real flair for voices, for the shaping and sculpting of characters.
		The winner of the 2004 Orange Prize, Levy’s fourth novel is an engrossing tale of cultural relations in post-war Britain.
		Levy has a knack for undercutting expectations, on more than one occasion what begins as a moment of comedy gradually becomes a scene with the power to both move and disturb.
	www.readysteadybook.com /BookReview.aspx?isbn=075530750X (478 words)

	Shades of acceptance - Books - www.smh.com.au
		Levy's characters are not gloriously beautiful, deeply accomplished or utterly tragic.
		In scale, it is a departure from her previous work, and roams across time and space: the Empire Exhibition, just before World War II; Jamaica during the war; the England of the Jamaican airmen; Calcutta after VJ Day; Earls Court, 1948.
		Levy's parents are, in a sense, always in her books.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/05/1078464648295.html (962 words)

	Being black and British - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Long before Zadie Smith and Monica Ali, Andrea Levy was exploring the rich textures of race, class and empire.
		Levy can convincingly, often hilariously, pass herself off as a mouthy butcher's daughter and a stiff-necked Jamaican schoolteacher who loves Shirley Temple.
		Levy's novel, set primarily in 1948 London with interludes in Jamaica, illuminates the moment at which one small, cold island began to turn into a melting pot.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2005/04/15/levy/index_np.html (813 words)

	Andrea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrea is a given name common in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
		Another prominent fictional Andrea (though played by a real Andrea, Andrea Byrne) was in the 1980s children's television programme You Can't Do That on Television, which in its - later banned - "Adoption" episode, parodied the character of Little Orphan Annie as "Little Orphan Andrea".
		Andrea Casiraghi (born 1984), eldest child of HRH Princess Caroline of Monaco
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrea (404 words)

	Review \| Small Island by Andrea Levy
		Born in London to Jamaican parents, Andrea Levy is an award-winning and well-respected author whose books examine emigration from Jamaica to England and the effects on everyone involved.
		With an informal writing style, Levy continues to target a Jamaican and European audience as she discusses the universal themes of racism, ignorance and war.
		In all, Andrea Levy's fourth novel is extremely well written, smart and entertaining.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/smallisland.html (781 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Author Levy wins best of the best
		Andrea Levy was also awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year award
		Author Andrea Levy has won the Orange Prize for Fiction's best of the best award, for her novel Small Island.
		Andrea Levy, 48, was born in England to Jamaican parents and lives and works in London.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4305908.stm (423 words)

	Amazon.de: Small Island.: English Books: Andrea Levy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Andrea Levy's award-winning novel, Small Island, deftly brings two bleak families into crisp focus.
		As the chapters reverse chronology and the two groups collide and finally mesh, the book unfolds through time like a photo album, and Levy captures the struggle between class, race, and sex with a humor and tenderness that is both authentic and bracing.
		Levy allows readers to see events from each of the four character's' point of view, lightly demonstrating both the subjectivity of truth and the rationalizing lies that people tell themselves when they are doing wrong.
	www.amazon.de /Small-Island-Andrea-Levy/dp/0755325656 (942 words)

	Andrea Levy - Biography
		This experience has given her an unusual perspective on the country of her birth – neither feeling totally part of the society nor a total outsider.
		But more than just the story of the Jamaicans who came looking for a new life in the Mother Country, she uses her understanding of the white society to show the adjustments and problems faced by the English people whom those Jamaicans came to live amongst.
		For Andrea Levy acknowledging the role played by all sides in this change is an important part of understanding the process so we can go on to create a better future together.
	www.andrealevy.co.uk /eca1.html (535 words)

	Amazon.com: Small Island: Books: Andrea Levy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Levy imbues this novel with fine detail, both in her descriptions of the physical surroundings and in the emotional subtleties with which her characters react to their postwar lives.
		Levy's touch is light, often humorous, and her scenes of amusing irony are nicely balanced by scenes of high drama.
		The author's tendency to tie her male characters to real, historical events--the Hindu/Muslim riots in Calcutta (experienced by Bernard) and a race-based riot at a London movie theater (experienced by Gilbert)--and her reliance on extreme coincidence to conclude the action, do occasionally feel intrusive and manipulative, but this is a minor quibble.
	www.amazon.com /Small-Island-Andrea-Levy/dp/0312424671 (2262 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Small Island (2004) by Andrea Levy
		Levy truly is an inspiring writer, and I will definately be looking forward to her next novels.
		Levy brings to life the characters and the time they live in.
		Levy manages to write in four distinct voices and seems to understand male psychology well.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/bb_small_island.shtml (981 words)

	Andrea Levy (1956-), Novelist
		Levy began writing in her early thirties after studying textile design and becoming an avid reader.
		She is the author of four novels which explore the problems faced by fl British-born children of Jamaican emigrants.
		Levy's most recent novel, Small Island (2004), set in 1948, explores the interaction between a fl couple and a white couple.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp69932 (148 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Off the Page: Andrea Levy
		Andrea Levy, whose fourth book, Small Island, won the Orange Prize for Fiction two weeks ago, was online
		Hello booklovers, and welcome to "Off the Page." Today Andrea Levy, the winner of this year's Orange Prize for Fiction, is our guest, ready to answer questions.
		Andrea, I imagine that your title, Small Island, refers to both Jamaica and Britain.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A52272-2004Jun18?language=printer (1849 words)

	Andrea Levy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrea Levy is a British author, born in 1956.
		Born in London to Jamaican parents, Levy's four novels explore the experiences of fl Britons.
		Small Island, (2004) winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year, and 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrea_Levy (92 words)

	USATODAY.com - Novelist collects Britain's Whitbread prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		LONDON (AP) — Small Island, Andrea Levy's saga of Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain has won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
		Levy, 48, of London, had been highly favored to take out the $58,000 prize after her story won Whitbread's novel of the year award earlier this month.
		A panel of judges, which included British actor Hugh Grant, selected Levy's novel for the overall prize, above winners of the award's first novel, biography, poetry and children's book categories.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2005-01-26-levy-whitbread-prize_x.htm (243 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Commonwealth Writers' Prize goes to 'Small Island'
		Author Andrea Levy has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Small Island, her novel about West Indian immigrants in postwar London.
		Levy, who was born in England to Jamaican parents, is a resident of London.
		Daniel Massa, chair of the Commonwealth judging panel, praised Levy's "consummate narrative skills in blending multiple voices in a framework resonant with humour, irony, understanding and a lot of fun," according to the Associated Press.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/03/30/commonweal050330.html (1253 words)

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