He lived in a state of uncertainty for four years pending a decision on his application. In 2001 an Angolan man named Manuel Bravo fled to England and claimed asylum on the grounds that he and his family would be persecuted and killed if they were returned to Angola. No, but there’s one true story in particular that made me determined to write the novel. If you’ve arrived at this page you’ve come quite far, so thank you for being interested. If you or your book club have a question, I’ll do my best to answer it. If you have any suggestions for how I can make this page more useful, please let me know via email or via the comments box. Special thanks to Daniel Goldin at Boswell Books – some of the best questions are from an interview I did with him. Thanks to Bond Street Books and Simon & Schuster for their input too. Thanks to all the readers who’ve sent me questions. These are the questions that readers and interviewers have been asking me, and I’ve tried to answer them as best as I can.
Here is a full author Q&A about LITTLE BEE / THE OTHER HAND – everything from the true stories surrounding the novel right through to discussion of its characters and themes.
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