Product Details
Simon & Schuster UK, July 2009
Trade Paperback, 448 pages
ISBN-10: 1847375006
ISBN-13: 9781847375001
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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…
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Community Times, July 26, 2011
...not be the last of his kind. Also available on Audio Book and Downloadable Audio Book. “The White Woman on the Green Bicycle,” by Monique Roffey British George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad shortly before the island nation ...
Cleveland Live, July 8, 2011
...0 Share close Google Buzz Digg Stumble Upon Fark Share Email Print Penguin, 437 pp. $16 Last year, Monique Roffey's tense, engaging novel The White Woman on the Green Bicycle became a finalist for the Orange Prize. It plays out in the ...
Guardian.co.uk, July 2, 2011
...know I never read women's fiction." Well, I do, and my summer will be full of it. Monique Roffey, author of The White Woman on The Green Bicycle, has just produced a wildly funny memoir about being brutally backstabbed by her longterm ...
World News Network, April 14, 2011
...Roffey's debut novel, written seven years before her Orange-prize shortlisted second, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, is remarkable ...
Suite101.com, January 27, 2011
...The Story: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010, Monique Roffeys The White Woman on the Green Bicycle is a compelling love story set in the ...
Booktrade - Book2Book, July 29, 2010
...Home> Book Trade Announcements > Simon & Schuster Acquire New Monique Roffey Novel Press Release: Deals Done Simon & Schuster UK have acquired the next novel by Monique Roffey, whose latest, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, was ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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" ...
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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