Empire's child
Andrea Levy started writing to unravel her family's story: her parents
coming from Jamaica to the UK, their shock on arrival and her own
experience growing up here. But in her new novel she's confronting the
politics of it all, she tells Bonnie Greer
Saturday January 31, 2004
The Guardian
The journey to Andrea Levy's house is complicated. The taxi driver
pulls over and checks his map. We're in north London, a part of town I
do not know well. I check my notes: "Andrea Levy, born in 1956; father
came over on the Empire Windrush in 1948; mother trained as a teacher
in Jamaica; Britain's most prolific black woman novelist; stepmother
to her husband's children; worked in BBC costume department;
straight-talking, sometimes described as 'angry'; once read that she
intends to have her portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, or
else; calls herself a 'gregarious recluse'; determined."
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