Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams
of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.
Three intimately connected stories, 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 that HMT Empire
Windrush docked at Tilbury.
Small Island was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in
2019, in an acclaimed production directed by Rufus Norris. This revised
edition of the play was published alongside the revival of the
production in 2022.