The Long Song was a finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Kate Kellaway in The Observer, Tayari Jones in the Washington Post, Fernanda Eberstadt in The New York Times, and Amanda Craig in The Telegraph were among those who gave the novel positive reviews. The themes of the book incorporate: how it feels being an immigrant Jamaican, racism, black versus white, landlord versus tenant, slavery and its abolition, slave uprisings, rape, the 1831 Baptist War in Jamaica, the clergy, and love triangles. Her mother, Kitty the slaves working the plantation land and the owner of the plantation, the white woman Caroline Mortimer, are other characters in the novel. She lived through the 1831 Baptist War, and then the beginning of freedom. It tells the tale of a young slave girl, July, who lives at Amity – a sugarcane plantation.

The Long Song is written as a memoir by an elderly Jamaican woman living in early 19th-century Jamaica during the final years of slavery and the transition to freedom that took place thereafter. In December 2018, a three-part television adaptation of the same name was broadcast on BBC One The Long Song was aired on PBS in February 2021. It was Levy's fifth and final novel, following the 2004 publication of Small Island. The Long Song is a historical novel by Andrea Levy published in 2010 that was the recipient of the Walter Scott Prize. For the plot device from Doctor Who, see The Rings of Akhaten.

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