White Woman On The Green Bicycle, The

White Woman On The Green Bicycle, The
Monique Roffey
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Paperback
h198 x 130mm - 448pg
20 Jan 2022 UK
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9781398514096
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The white woman on the green bicycle is Sabine Harwood, who comes to Trinidad reluctantly as a na've newlywed with her husband George. They never intended to stay beyond three years, but George falls in love with the place. Their arrival coincides with the launch of the PNM, the new Trinidadian national party, and at that time George and Sabine have no idea of the role that the PNM's charismatic leader Eric Williams will come to play in their lives. The novel opens with a violent police beating. It is 2006 - George and Sabine are in their seventies and out of love, and Trinidad is beset by gang violence and teeters on the edge of dictatorship. The beating fuels Sabine's loathing of Trinidad and inspires George to set about winning back her affections. But he makes a discovery about a secret at the heart of their relationship - a discovery that leads him to try to make amends, with tragic consequences. Time shifts to the couple's arrival in 1956, when George and Sabine are young, beautiful and crazy in love, and Trinidad is an idyllic expat paradise, and the narrative traces the events that have shaped the couple's ultimate destiny and contemporary Trinidad
Monique Roffey was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and educated in the UK. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Sun Dog, was published in 2002. Since then she has worked as a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation and has held the post of Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Sussex and Chichester universities. She currently lives in Harlesden, north London, where she spends most of the day in her pyjamas, writing.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781398514096
Published: 20 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 27mm
Pages: 448

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