Author: Roffey, Monique
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 27 June 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Harvill Secker) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 368 pages
240 x 160 x 30 | 582g
Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island – the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.
‘Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it’ SARAH WINMAN‘Beautiful and important’ SAFIYA SINCLAIR Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island.
As the days pass, this shocking event draws together four women. There’s Sharleen, a journalist with an eye for the real story. Her childhood friend Tara, a pink-haired, straight-talking local activist. Gigi, the ‘notorious’ founder of the Port Isabella Sex Workers Collective. And Daisy, first lady of St Colibri, who is haunted by a disappearance in her own family decades ago.
In a community in which women’s voices are often silenced and violence against them is overlooked time after time, the group soon find themselves compelled to speak out – and to act. But even they could never have foreseen the consequences of their courage… ‘Will keep you reading all hours... unforgettable’GLAMOUR‘A thrilling read, I loved it’ SADIE JONES‘A vital novel… Fiery, funny and ferociously feminist’DIANA EVANS‘The spirit of carnival itself is in the writing… Electrifying’JASON ALLEN-PAISANT‘Monique Roffey is a trailblazer of Caribbean literature’ BREANNE MC IVOR