Monique Roffey
Monique Roffey
Monique Roffeyis an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
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The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.
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All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.
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'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.