Passiontide

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...

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Passiontide is a bold rallying cry of a novel. Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it SARAH WINMAN, author of Still Life

Product details

• Authors: Monique Roffey, Roffey Monique
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.05.2025
• EAN: 9781529925449
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-2544-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Social issues, Caribbean islands, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Relating to people of the Caribbean diasporas / heritage