Who wrote the award-winning novel 'Small Island'?

Small Island is a 2004 prize-winning novel by British author Andrea Levy. It was adapted for television in two episodes by the BBC in 2009.

Andrea Levy (born 7 March 1956) is an English novelist, born in London to Jamaican parents who sailed to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948. Levy's novels frequently engage topics related to Jamaican diaspora peoples in England and the ways in which they negotiate racial, cultural, and national identities.

The novel is based on four main characters: Hortense, Queenie, Gilbert and Bernard and the story is told from each of their points of view. Its main plot is set in 1948 and focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants, who, escaping economic hardship on their own "small island," move to England, the Mother Country, for which the men have fought during World War II.

The novel has won a number of prizes including:

Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004.

Whitbread Book of the Year in 2004.

Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) in 2005.