Andrea Levy

Via Ottawa International Writers Festival website:
"CBC's Adrian Harewood hosts Andrea Levy, winner of The Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Small Island. She returns to Ottawa with her fifth novel, The Long Song, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and tells the story of July, a slave on a Jamaican sugar plantation whose tumultuous life ends in blessed freedom." http://www.andrealevy.co.uk/