Monique Roffey

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

Trinidad woman's marriage challenged by husband's obsessive love during political upheaval

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Monique Roffey
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.

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