Fruit of the Lemon
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by Andrea Levy
narrated by Debra Michaels
Genre: Modern Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Media: CD
Book Reference: DIR1810
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7897 5
Duration: 10h (approx.) on 9 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: £19.56
Synopsis
It's the late 70s and Faith Jackson's in a hurry - to loosen the hold of her loving but strict parents, to 'go her own sweet way'. At her new job as a dresser at Television Centre, Faith negotiates the trip-wires of being black in often slyly witty, seemingly throwaway asides. But her parents' announcement that they might go home to Jamaica and a vicious racist National Front attack on a local bookshop, propels Faith into crisis...
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