From the critically acclaimed Andrea Levy, Orange Prize winning author of SMALL
ISLAND, comes this breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdo
wnable novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange
Prize. You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tell
s me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste
of the story that is held within these pages.
