Passiontide with Monique Roffey
Thu 04 Jul 2024
7:00pm at Walcot House, 90B Walcot St, Bath BA1 5BG
Book + Ticket gives you a free ticket with a copy of the book, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, author talk, Q&A and signing.
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Other ways to book:
Email books@mrbsemporium.com, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
We’re thrilled to welcome the incredible Monique Roffey back to Bath to discuss her brand new novel, Passiontide, a story of four women who spark a revolution on a Caribbean island.
Monique is the author of six previous novels, including the most recent The Mermaid of Black Conch which went on to win the Costa Book of the Year Award, and has become a seminal Mr B’s favourite since its publication.
We can’t wait to welcome Monique back to Bath, and we hope you’ll join us.
About the book:
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, the pink-haired, straight-talking star of the activism scene. 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 often overlooked, 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
‘Monique Roffey is a unique talent’ Bernardine Evaristo
‘A daring, mesmerising novel’ Maggie O’Farrell