Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her Marguerite. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. With The Long Song, Levy once again reinvents the historical novel. It won both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. Small Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as a triumph ( San Francisco Chronicle).
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