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Monique Roffey, FRSL, is an award winning British-Trinidadian writer. Her most recent novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch (Peepal Tree Press/Vintage) won the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2020 and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, 2020, the Rathbones/Folio Award 2021, and the Republic of Consciousness Award. Her other novels have been shortlisted for The Orange Prize, Costa Novel Award, Encore and Orion Awards. In 2013, Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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The Mermaid of Black Conch
3.93 avg rating — 14,110 ratings — published 2020 — 28 editions
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“Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.”
― Monique Roffey, Sun Dog
tags: identity-crisis, travel
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“That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.”
― Monique Roffey, Archipelago
tags: caribbean-fiction, caribbean-women-writers, travel
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“It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids.”
― Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
tags: island-life, magic, music
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“Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.”
― Monique Roffey, Sun Dog
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