Passiontide - Roffey, Monique
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Erscheint vorauss. 10. September 2024
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"When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deaths, outraged local women take matters into their own hands. In this powerful new rewriting of the detective novel, Sora's death is the last straw and the beginning of something much larger, a revolution some are calling it. The event draws together four women who had never before seen each other as allies: a friend of the victim, the organizer of a sex workers' collective, a local activist, and the Prime Minister's wife. Tenderly, sometimes, hilariously, Passiontide chronicles how these women join forces and find new ways to help one another"--…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deaths, outraged local women take matters into their own hands. In this powerful new rewriting of the detective novel, Sora's death is the last straw and the beginning of something much larger, a revolution some are calling it. The event draws together four women who had never before seen each other as allies: a friend of the victim, the organizer of a sex workers' collective, a local activist, and the Prime Minister's wife. Tenderly, sometimes, hilariously, Passiontide chronicles how these women join forces and find new ways to help one another"--
Autorenporträt
MONIQUE ROFFEY is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of eight books, five of which are set in Trinidad and the Caribbean region. The Mermaid of Black Conch, her previous novel, won the Costa Book of the Year award. She co-founded Writers Rebel inside Extinction Rebellion. She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and lives in the East End of London.
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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