Small Island
2009
📺 1 Season
🎬 2 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 90 min/episode
Drama
Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as we trace the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
Seasons
Season 1
London 1948: Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband, in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh. The women have both married in unpromising circumstances as love is a luxury neither can afford. As Hortense remembers her life in Jamaica and the profound love she had for Michael and his betrayal of her, Queenie also remembers her night of passion with the same Michael when her husband was away at war. Initially suspicious of each other, will they uncover the secret they share?
Cast
Crew
Writer
Sarah Williams, Paula Milne
Producer
Rebecca Eaton, Vicky Licorish, Grainne Marmion
Network
BBC One
Production
BBC
Keywords
london, englandbased on novel or bookworld war iijamaicaminiseries1940s