The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey

Her erotic memoir With the Kisses of his Mouth was published in 2011 to much praise and controversy and was reviewed in the Guardian as ''a subversive work that transcends the author''s personal story: it stands alone in the chasm that has opened between feminist literature and the belles du jour brigade''. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle a story that maps the creolisation of a colonial couple during the early Independence years in Trinidad received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010 and the Encore prize 2011. The judges commended it for its ''exploration of the greater Caribbean space in which is embedded a real-life story of trauma and loss and ultimately redemption that is both contemporary and compelling''. It won the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature in 2013. Archipelago published in 2012 is both an epic sea voyage and an examination of climate change from the point of view of a man from the southern Caribbean. Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Sans Amen it tells the story of three characters a gunman a hostage and a boy soldier caught up in a botched coup d''etat. The most recent of these Caribbean novels is House of Ashes published in July 2014.

Three of her novels are set in the Caribbean and form a loose trilogy which engages with political and environmental issues in the region. She has written four novels and a memoir. Monique Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian-born British writer.

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey