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From Andrea Levy, author of Small Island and winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Best of the Best Orange Prize, comes a story of one woman and two islands.  Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in... read more

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'Your mum and dad came on a banana boat,' that was what the bully boys at my primary school used to say.

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  1. Andrea Levy (Author)
 

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