![]() ![]() ![]() In her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Every Light in the House Burnin' (1994), the story is of a Jamaican family living in London in the 1960s. In her first three novels she explored - from different perspectives - the problems faced by black British-born children of Jamaican emigrants. ![]() ![]() After attending writing workshops 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, that look closely and perceptively at Britain and its changing population and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean. At that time there was little written about the black British experience in Britian. This experience has given her an complex perspective on the country of her birth.Īndrea Levy did not begin writing until she was in her mid-thirties. Andrea was born in London in 1956, growing up black in what was still a very white England. In 1948 Andrea Levy's father sailed from Jamaica to England on the Empire Windrush ship and her mother joined him soon after. ![]()
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