Andrea Levy: Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize [2004] paperback ZCRIT She was at once a

She was at once a beneficiary and an agent of change and these poems retain that enabling agency

X is thinking it's time to ditch the resort life and calls up his old friend Morty to plot his return to London

Packed with mystery

but this book offers clear and hopeful evidence of the corollary: that we can shape our brains

Maud and Henry took their two sons (aged six and eight) with them

Andrea Levy: Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize [2004] paperback ZCRIT She was at once aSmall Island by bestselling author Andrea Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize 'Best of the Best' as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread. Possibly the definitive fictional account of the experiences of the Empire Windrush generation, it was recently selected by the BBC as one of its '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. 'A great read honest, skilful, thoughtful and important' Guardian It is 1948, and England