Review | 'The Long Song': A former slave tells her story of a tumultuous life

With every novel she writes, Briton Andrea Levy, author of the award-winning Small Island, delves deeper into her Jamaican origins. In The Long Song, she explores the violent and turbulent saga of slavery in 19th century Jamaica. Yet although it boasts an intriguing historical premise and brims with factual detail, the story doesn't quite triumph as fiction, with the tale's trajectory toward the end proving particularly disorienting.