Overview
Region
Diaspora
England
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Two Jamaican immigrants — Hortense and Gilbert — arrive in London in 1948 and rent a room from Queenie, a white woman whose husband has just returned from the war. A rich, humane novel about the Windrush generation.
Literary Significance
Orange Prize and Whitbread Prize winner; the defining novel of the Windrush generation