Two Caravans
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| Author | Marina Lewycka |
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| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Fig Tree |
| Publication date | 29 March 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0670916374 |
Two Caravans is a novel by Marina Lewycka. It was published by Penguin Books on 29 March 2007. The book follows Lewycka's debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
[edit] Plot summary
A crew of migrant workers from three continents are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across all of England in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future.
The story centres on a group of migrant workers who hail from Eastern Europe, China, and Africa and have come to Kent to harvest strawberries for delivery to the supermarkets, and end up living in two small caravans, a men's caravan and a women's caravan. They are all seeking a better life (and in their different ways they are also, of course, looking for love) and they've come to England, some legally, some illegally, to find it.
They are supervised by Farmer Leaping, a red-faced man who treats everyone equally except for the Polish woman named Yola, the boss of the crew, who favors him with her charms in exchange for something a little extra on the side. But the two are discreet, and all is harmonious in this cozy vale – until the evening when Farmer Leaping's wife comes upon him and Yola and in retaliation she runs him down in her red sports car. By the time the police arrive the migrant workers have piled into one of the trailer homes and quickly leave their arcadia, thus setting off on a journey across the length and breadth of England.
