The Long Song

From the critically acclaimed Andrea Levy, Orange Prize-winning author of Small Island, comes this breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking, and unputdownable novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize. The story is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July, a slave girl living on a sugar plantation named Amity, is the focus of this tale. It recounts her life during the Baptist War of 1831 and the abolition of slavery. The narrative includes her mother Kitty, other plantation workers, and the white owner Caroline Mortimer, among many others, portraying their lives and struggles during this tumultuous period.