Her comedy erupts from her droll voice and her biting insight into human nature. Her primary implement is humour, which she uses to smooth the rocky road to empathy and truth. Over the course of five novels, Levy has built a reputation for delivering unpredictable responses and unlikely approaches to the topic of Britain and race. "I am sure many of us have ancestors who owned slaves, whether we know it or not." She spoke to me on the phone from England in the slightly arch tone I remembered from a previous conversation. "Well, I should think so," said the author, who is descended from Jamaica's coloured classes. "Which of you would ever admit to slave-owning ancestors?" one woman asked, looking around. The women, all White, shuddered at the mind-boggling barbarity of the island's planters. Some time ago, novelist Andrea Levy met with a group of women to discuss her latest novel, The Long Song, a dark satire of the final years of Jamaican slavery as experienced by July, a young house slave. Andrea Levy’s Unpredictable Approach to Slavery
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