Passiontide

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

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, a pink-haired, straight-talking local activist. 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 overlooked time after time, the group soon find themselves compelled to speak out – and to act. But even they could never have foreseen the consequences of their courage…

Participantes

Autor: Monique Roffey

Autor

MONIQUE ROFFEY

Monique Roffey nasceu em Porto de Espanha, na ilha de Trindad, em 1965. É escritora e professora de ficção contemporânea na Manchester MetropolitanUniversty. Faz parte do Royal SocietyofLiterature e do movimento ExtinctionRebellion, grupo de resistência não violenta contra o colapso climático. Seu livro Sereia de conchanegra, publicado no Brasil pela Darkside em 2023, recebeu o Costa Book oftheYearAward em 2020.