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A chance to ask questions to improve this article! Andrea Levy will be talking about Small Island on the BBC radio programme World Book Club. You can submit a question by emailing worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk or using the form on the World Book Club homepage. If you wish to attend the recording, it will take place at 16.00 on Tuesday 8th December 2009, at Bush House in London. Email the same address to confirm your intention to attend. EdQuine (talk) 22:33, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In an article written by Andrea Levy for the Guardian in 2000 she identifies her nationality as English:
I've switched from saying Britain to saying England. Britain is the state. You're only British when you're outside the islands. When, for example, I'm in Europe or America, I'm British. It makes me feel somehow bigger. But as soon as I set my feet down on the land of Britain, I know I'm either in England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland - separate countries without any doubt.
I am English. Born and bred, as the saying goes. (As far as I can remember, it is born and bred and not born-and-bred-with-a-very-long-line-of-white-ancestors-directly-descended-from-Anglo-Saxons.) England is the only society I truly know and sometimes understand. I don't look as the English did in the England of the 30s or before, but being English is my birthright. England is my home. An eccentric place where sometimes I love being English.
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