Mr Jacob has become seriously ill and starts to move unsteadilty through the care of the National Health Service. As Angela, his youngest child, tries to help her mother through this ordeal, she finds herself reliving her childhood years, spent on a council estate in Highbury.

This is the second novel from the author of 'Every Light in the House Burnin'. It is a story about 2 black sisters growing up in London in the mid 70s. They are working-class girls at a posh school. One will go upmarket, the other down.

Faith Jackson fixes herself up with a great job and the perfect flatshare. Neither are that perfect. Furious when her parents retire to Jamaica, she makes her own journey there. Here she is enfolded in her Aunt Coral's endless talk of ancestors, stretching back to Cuba, Panama, Harlem and Scotland.

Set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed, this novel follows the life of July, a slave girl, who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity.

A superb collection of writing from multi-award-winning, million-copy bestseller Andrea Levy.

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 - the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. It premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2019, directed by Rufus Norris.