British author Andrea Levy, whose award-winning novels captured ... Levy was born in 1956 to Jamaican parents who had travelled to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948. Sir Lenny Henry, who ...

Levy's books chart the experiences - and ... She is a textiles graduate of Jamaican descent whose mother, like Andrea's own, came to England on a banana boat. Faith has a message to the bullies ...

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. Her fourth novel, *Small Island*, won both the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best. She lives in ...