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 Small Island, 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 April 2019, directed by Rufus Norris.