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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Andrea Levy
|title=The Long Song
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=July's tale, The Long Song, opens with her mother Kitty's rape by Amity plantation's overseer, Tam Dewar. Nine months later, we find him striking the midwife who can't keep Kitty quiet during labour. And Kitty doesn't keep hold of her daughter for very long. Spotted by Caroline, the plantation owner's widowed sister on the side of the road, July is taken away from her mother to become a lady's maid. Deprived of both parent and name - Caroline renames her Marguerite - July learns how to avoid her mistress's needle stick punishments and finds a place among the other house servants.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755359402</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Howard Jacobson
