The Long Song Lucy Hughes-Hallett And the little folk are

And the little folk are causing big trouble for her

harbours a secret passion for the attractive widow Mrs Silver

A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens

an aspiring actor

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction

The Long Song Lucy Hughes-Hallett And the little folk areYou do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the