![]() ![]() Then suddenly we’ve leapt forward nine months and into a different style again, like a folk-tale or myth, of how childbirth had to be an animal-like shelling of peas for slave mothers working out in the field. ![]() In this world it’s only one step removed from being pushed up against in a crowd. Then comes a short, in-your-face gritty description of what a routine event it was for a slave woman to find herself being impregnated – that is, raped – by a white man. But before we hear that voice, we get a Foreword in the style of an editor’s preface, explaining why the narrative even exists. In this novel most of the work is done by the single voice of her first-person narrator. In Small Island she had several voices telling the story. Andrea Levy works hard to make it engaging, and I love the way she does it. Jamaica in the days of slavery, thoughtlessly brutal white owners…. ![]()
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