The White Woman on the Green Bicycle Book

The White woman on the Green Bicycle is the Orange Prize nominated novel from Monique Roffey. In the 1950's, newlyweds George and Sabine have embarked in a new life in Trinidad. George settles immediately and falls in love with the Island. Sabine loves her husband significantly more than her new life, which she accepts as only temporary; her willingness to adapt are commendable given her level of unhappiness. However, as married life in Trinidad takes on a more permanent arrangement, Sabine finds herself falling into a furtive admiration of the alluring and enigmatic political revolutionary, Eric William. Sabine's interest in Eric is requited by a series of letters that she writes but can't bring herself to post. This is a beautiful evocatively written story about Trinidadian history of slavery and colonisation and its consequential racial tensions which are weaved beautifully with the story of marriage and its transition from early romance to the reality of two people with individual aspirations and the heartache and painful realisation of how love can drift when feelings are unspoken. Read More