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Levy, Andrea 1956- (Author).

Summary: Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but with her husband, Bernard, not back from the war, what else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. This novel explores a point in England's past when the country began to change.

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  • ISBN: 075530750X (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 97807553075010 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 533 p. ; 20 cm.
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  • Publisher: London : Review, 2004.

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Originally published in hardcover: London : Review, c2004.

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