The Long Song is the story of July’s resilience and heartbreak and a powerful story of slavery, revolution, freedom and love. However it is the arrival of Robert Goodwin, the young English overseer that dramatically changes the life of both July and her mistress. July is taught to read and write, so that she can help her mistress run the business and, despite gaining her freedom, she remains bound to the plantation. But The Long Song is ultimately the story of July in fact, the drama is really a series of flashbacks as Old July (played by Dona Kroll) writes her memoirs many years later. The resourceful and mischievous July soon becomes indispensible to her mistress together they live through the Baptist War of 1831 and the chaotic end of slavery. SKU: 9780755359424 Category: FICTION (GENERAL) Tags: 0755359429, Andrea, HEADLINE, Levy, P, Review. the long song by Andrea Levy RELEASE DATE: The fifth novel by Levywhose Small Island won Britain’s Orange Prize and was Whitbread Book of the Yearis set in 19th-century Jamaica and covers the last years of slavery and its long, miserable aftermath.

She lives with her mother until the English plantation owner, Mrs Caroline Mortimer, decides to move her into the big house and rename her Marguerite. July is the child of a field slave on the sugar plantation of Amity.

The story is told by elderly former slave July, with the assistance of her son Thomas, who prompts her to tell her tale. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2018 Verified Purchase Andrea Levys story of slavery and the slave rising in Jamaica is told in the rich voice of July, born as a baby to a slave mother,separated from her mother at a young age, reared as a house slave to a British planter and his sister. It is at once, defiant, funny and shocking. The Long Song is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of its abolition.

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