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.

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.

Kate Kellaway in The Observer,[2] Tayari Jones in the Washington Post,[3] Fernanda Eberstadt in The New York Times,[4] and Amanda Craig in The Telegraph[5] were among those who gave the novel positive reviews.

[6] It was the recipient of the 2011 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction,[7][8][9] with the judging panel saying that "Andrea Levy brings to this story such personal understanding and imaginative depth that her characters leap from the page, with all the resilience, humour and complexity of real people.

[11] A three-part television adaptation of The Long Song, starring Tamara Lawrance, Jack Lowden, Hayley Atwell, and Lenny Henry was filmed in the Dominican Republic, and aired on BBC One in December 2018.