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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
 
By Monique Roffey
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When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill at ease with the racial segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era. Her only solace is her growing fixation with Eric Williams, the charismatic leader of Trinidad's new national party, to whom she pours out all her hopes and fears for the future in letters that she never brings herself to send. As the years progress, George and Sabine's marriage endures for better or worse. When George discovers Sabine's cache of letters, he realises just how many secrets she's kept from him - and he from her - over the decades. And he is seized by an urgent, desperate need to prove his love for her, with tragic consequences…
Barbara Kingsolver wins Orange Prize for Fiction
New Zealand Herald, June 9, 2010
...Attica Locke's Black Water Rising; Briton Rosie Alison's The Very Thought of You, and British-Trinidadian writer Monique Roffey's The White Woman on the Green Bicycle. Kingsolver was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1999 for the ...
Author Barbara Kingsolver Wins Orange Prize for Women
ABC News, June 9, 2010
...Stairs'), who were joined by Britons Mantel and Rosie Alison ('The Very Thought of You') as well as Monique Roffey, of British and Trinidadian descent, with 'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle ...
Barbara Kingsolver wins Britain's Orange Prize for Fiction with 'The Lacuna'
104.9 EZ Rock, June 9, 2010
...Locke's "Black Water Rising"; Briton Rosie Alison's "The Very Thought of You," and British-Trinidadian writer Monique Roffey's "The White Woman on the Green Bicycle." Kingsolver was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1999 for the ...
US writer Barbara Kingsolver wins Britain's Orange Prize for Fiction with 'The Lacuna'
Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 9, 2010
...Locke's "Black Water Rising"; Briton Rosie Alison's "The Very Thought of You," and British-Trinidadian writer Monique Roffey's "The White Woman on the Green Bicycle." Kingsolver was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1999 for the ...
US writer Kingsolver wins Orange Prize for Fiction
Seattle Times, June 9, 2010
...Locke's "Black Water Rising"; Briton Rosie Alison's "The Very Thought of You," and British-Trinidadian writer Monique Roffey's "The White Woman on the Green Bicycle." Kingsolver was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1999 for the ...
Mantel on course for Booker/Orange double
Times Online, April 22, 2010
...the list with her sixth novel, The Lacuna, her first in nine years. The list is completed by Monique Roffey, a Trinidadian-born British author who is about to publish an erotic memoir detailing her love life over the past ten years. She is ...
This year's Orange Prize longlist, now with extra cheer
Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2010
...by Maria McCann "Black Mamba Boy" by Nadifa Mohamed "A Gate at the Stairs" by Lorrie Moore "The White Woman on the Green Bicycle" by Monique Roffey "The Still Point" by Amy Sackville "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett "The Little Stranger" ...
S&S buys Roffey memoir
The Bookseller, March 31, 2009
...& Schuster has acquired the rights to With the Kisses of his Mouth, 'a heartbreaking, thought-provoking memoir' by Monique Roffey. Francesca Main, commissioning editor for fiction, bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Isobel Dixon at Blake ...
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