A tale inspired by the years on either side of 19th-century Jamaica's emancipation finds the willful slave Miss July moving into her mistress's great house, where she becomes a valuable confidante, learns to read and witnesses the Baptist War. By the Whitbread Book of the Year-winning author of Small Island.
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'THE LONG SONG is simultaneously the life-affirming story of one woman's battle to survive in terrible circumstances, and a tribute to the legions of slaves who did more than suffer and die, but also managed to squeeze all they possibly could out of the bleakest of circumstances' (Independent)
'Told with irresistible cunning; it is captivating, mischievous and optimistic' (Telegraph)
'Levy has a rare ability to channel the maelstrom of history into the most intimate of human dramas' (New Statesman)
A moving tale set in Jamaica during the last years of slavery from Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy
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