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Passiontide
- Author
- Monique Roffey
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 27 June 2024
- Run Time
- 12 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: love / relationships
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island – the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.
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…
‘Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it’ SARAH WINMAN
‘Beautiful and important’ SAFIYA SINCLAIR
‘A vital novel… Fiery, funny and ferociously feminist’ DIANA EVANS
©2024 Monique Roffey (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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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
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Roffey’s world-building power is evident on every page… It dramatises a full-throated campaign for change
Guardian
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A sensual, ferocious subversion of the island police-procedural. If The White Lotus were a modern feminist thriller, this would be it... A grown-up treat and cri de cœur for a better world
LALINE PAULL, author of The Bees and Pod
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Beautiful and important. Passiontide is a resounding testament to the rebellious spirit and bravery of Caribbean women
SAFIYA SINCLAIR, author of How to Say Babylon
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A tour de force Caribbean novel of female revolution that will keep you reading all hours… A compelling and unforgettable read
Glamour, Best Books of June
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Passiontide imagines a feminist reckoning in the wake of one woman’s murder on the fictional Caribbean island of St Colibri... Roffey masters the building sense of tension and scale as the women’s protest gathers strength
SERVICE95
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Powerful and devastating
Stylist
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Compelling… Passiontide is suspense-filled, and simmering with anger
Mail on Sunday
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A vital novel…fiery, funny and ferociously feminist
DIANA EVANS, author of Ordinary People
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Monique Roffey is a trailblazer of Caribbean literature… Passiontide is a reckoning, a protest, and a prayer
BREANNE MC IVOR, author of The God of Good Looks
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Details
- Author
- Monique Roffey
- Narrator
- Martina Laird, Burt Caesar, Ami Okumura Jones
- Duration
- 12 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 June 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529925142
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: love / relationships
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island – the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.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…‘Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it’ SARAH WINMAN‘Beautiful and important’ SAFIYA SINCLAIR‘A vital novel… Fiery, funny and ferociously feminist’ DIANA EVANS©2024 Monique Roffey (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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