Fruit of the Lemon

by: Andrea Levy
Published in London, Headline, 1999

Faith Jackson, twenty two year old, daughter of conservative Jamaican migrants in UK, starts her new life enjoying her freedom sharing a flat with other three roommates and her new job in the costume department of the BBC. She becomes more aware of the hidden racism all around her and the ignorance of her white friends she suffers of nervous breakdown that made her parents to send her back to Jamaica on a holiday where she finds family and a sense of who she is searching her family tree with the help of Aunt Coral.