Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year, and the Orange Prize for Fiction, this is the story of four people whose lives become intertwined in London in the 1940s. An excellent read, exceeding well written, and with a very surprising twist at the end, this book explores the lives of the first immigrants from Jamaica - their hopes, their aspirations, and their experiences of ignorance and discrimination in drab London struggling to recover from WW2. An excellent exploration of what is really a very bygone age.