Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010.

'THE LONG SONG is simultaneously the life-affirming story of one woman's battle to survive in terrible circumstances, and a tribute to the legions of slaves who did more than suffer and die, but also managed to squeeze all they possibly could out of the bleakest of circumstances' -- Independent 'Told with irresistible cunning; it is captivating, mischievous and optimistic' -- Telegraph 'Levy has a rare ability to channel the maelstrom of history into the most intimate of human dramas' -- New Statesman

Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents who came to Britain in 1948. She has lived all her life in London. After attending writing workshops when she was in her mid-thirties, Levy began to write the novels that she, as a young woman, had always wanted to read -- entertaining novels that reflect the experiences of black Britons, which look closely and perceptively at Britain and its changing population and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean.