Andrea Levy ­ Notes from a Small Island

Published May 12, 2004

Small Island

By Andrea Levy

Review, 441 pp.,

$24.95

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. The author of four acclaimed novels, she is due for a breakout success in North America with her latest book, which closely follows the lives of four people before and after the Second World War. In a recent e-mail exchange with Embassy's Peter Schneider, Levy...