Monique Roffey
Trinidadian-British novelist whose The Mermaid of Black Conch won the Costa Novel Award. Her fiction draws on Caribbean history and mythology with unusual lyrical power. She is one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary Caribbean literary fiction.
Works
- The Mermaid of Black ConchMan falls in love with magical mermaid discovered in Caribbean cave myth
- ArchipelagoWoman searches for missing husband across Caribbean islands while discovering herself
- The White Woman on the Green BicycleTrinidad woman's marriage challenged by husband's obsessive love during political upheaval
- Tide Running
- House of Ashes