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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

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    An unforgettable love story brimming with politics and passion, hope and despair, set over fifty years in Trinidad

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    When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life but Sabine feels isolated heat-fatigued and ill at ease with the racial segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era. Her only solace is her growing fixation with Eric Williams the charismatic leader of Trinidad's new national party to whom she pours out all her hopes and fears for the future in letters that she never brings herself to send. As the years progress George and Sabine's marriage endures for better or worse. When George discovers Sabine's cache of letters he realises just how many secrets she's kept from him - and he from her - over the decades. And he is seized by an urgent desperate need to prove his love for her with tragic consequences...

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    Isolated in a new country as her husband takes to the move to Trinidad instantly, Sabine Harwood struggles in a world of racial segregation and stifling heat. With the country on the verge of independence, Monique Roffey's The White Woman on the Green Bicycle offers a wonderful insight into the experiences of British expats. With differing views on their new life in the Caribbean, Sabine's marriage to husband George falters and she seeks inspiration elsewhere, becoming wrapped up in the political messages of charismatic politician Eric Williams. George eventually discovers his wife's unhappiness and is desperate to prove his love in the difficult environment of a small corner of Britain's fast crumbling empire. This stirring novel was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010.

  • 1847395228
  • 9781847395221
  • Monique Roffey
  • 20 April 2010
  • Pocket Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 448
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