![]() ![]() Prompted and provoked by her sons persistent questioning, Julys resilience and heartbreak are gradually revealed in this extraordinarily powerful story of slavery, revolution, freedom, and love. Taught to read and write so that she can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the plantation despite her freedom. It is the arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the great house for both July and her mistress. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within. Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. ![]() Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. ![]() Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her Marguerite. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. With The Long Song, Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. It won both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. ![]() Small Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as a triumph ( San Francisco Chronicle). ![]()
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